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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] lei q: -tt marks direct hits as "flagged"
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:38:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgzrebx2.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210225101106.12505-5-e@80x24.org>

Eric Wong writes:

> This can be used to quickly distinguish messages which were
> direct hits when doing thread expansion vs messages that
> were merely part of the same thread.

Ah, that's very useful.

> +Using this twice (C<-tt>) sets the C<flagged> (AKA "important")
> +on messages which were actual messages.  This is useful to distinguish
> +messages which were direct hits from messages which were merely part
> +of the same thread.
> +
> +TODO: Warning: this flag may become persistent and saved in
> +lei/store unless an MUA unflags it!  (Behavior undecided)

Oy, I understand even less than I thought I did.  How does the
information about what the MUA unflags get back into the store?  Is
there an implicit additional step (`lei import ...')?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-26  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-25 10:11 [PATCH 0/4] lei: fleshing out some existing features Eric Wong
2021-02-25 10:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] lei convert: support IMAP output and "-F eml" inputs Eric Wong
2021-02-25 10:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] lei import: use --in-format/-F for consistency Eric Wong
2021-02-25 10:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] test_common: io_modes: always support read/write Eric Wong
2021-02-25 10:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] lei q: -tt marks direct hits as "flagged" Eric Wong
2021-02-26  3:38   ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2021-02-26  4:13     ` Eric Wong
2021-02-26  4:38       ` Kyle Meyer

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