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add thread fold/unfold
Ability to fold/unfold thread via single click and hotkey will make UI much cleaner and convenient to use - especially in case of ML where long heated threads are not uncommon thing.
+1 to this. Arbitrary folding would be awesome (something along the lines of gmail where previously read messages in a thread are folded automatically)
I was wondering where this is at and if I can help complete this. Do we have a good idea on the strategy to employ for this feature?
Damn, this notification really got my hopes up. Much like the rest of 2020, it was a disappointment.
Pardon, wasn't my intention to give false hopes :)
There's incomplete implementation in PR#783 and there's rather complete implementation of a related thing in mu4e-conversation - I don't know enough elisp to bring those together but some ideas in the latter (using org-mode code for folding for example) seem like they could be useful to fill in gaps in the former.
I think the two features are orthogonal: this issue is, to my understanding, about folding a thread in the header view (something similar to what notmuch does). mu4e-conversation implements threading in the main view (the body of the emails). Both are useful, for sure, but I'm more interested in folding threads in the header view.
The headers view is quite complicated already, I think it would benefit from being split in a generic tree-view-like widget, and then the mu4e-specific logic.
Perhaps something like https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-ctable or something else.
That makes sense, @djcb. I assume the goal would be something like emacs-ctable would handle the folding, correct?
I've setup a small project at https://github.com/rougier/mu4e-thread-folding for folding/unfoldong threads in headers view.
It is based on overlay. Note this is not foolproof, but usable until the ctable version. One problem is with (mu4e~headers-get-thread-info msg 'thread-id) that does not seem to return a unique id when there are a lot of thread.
Thread-folding has been merged in master, so finally closing this.
Thanks! but how to use it and from which version? Since the message came from "Apr 23, 2023", I think 1.10.7 should contain it, but I'm not sure how to use it.
Thread-folding has been merged in master, so finally closing this.
Thanks! but how to use it and from which version? Since the message came from "Apr 23, 2023", I think 1.10.7 should contain it, but I'm not sure how to use it.
Ah, no, see https://github.com/djcb/mu/blob/master/NEWS.org It'll be in the next stable release (1.12).