Wish list: Hide deleted messages in the summary

[Uday Reddy]

The habitual Thunderbird users would like to see deleted messages disappear from the summary window.

Can this be implemented using the invisible text-property?

[Arik (akwm)]

I think it can. the current code should already skip them in vm-motion.el, and because they are marked "deleted" they should be easy to find with a "vm-toggle-show-deleted-messages" or something. I will see if I can come up with something

[Arik (akwm)]

decision about motion must be made, do we unhide deleted messages when using a no-skip motion (like available for threads) or make users toggle the hiding first and then move (or have an option)? I'm thinking goto-message needs to unhide since this is an explicit request. Motion should also rehide when moving away from thread in appropriate circumstances.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

Arik writes:

> decision about motion must be made, do we unhide deleted messages when
> using a no-skip motion (like available for threads) or make users toggle
> the hiding first and then move (or have an option)?

I think we will have to decide the finer details after getting the
user feedback. Since I am not a user of hidden deletes, I don't have
a preference myself.

For the time being, let us go with the straightforward decision, which
is that "no-skip" means no skip. (There also needs to be consistency
between the motion in the Summary window and the motion in
Folder/Presentation window.)

> I'm thinking goto- message needs to unhide since this is an explicit
> request. Motion should also rehide when moving away from thread in
> appropriate circumstances.

Sounds fine.

----

Do you think we should include this in today's release?

Cheers,
Uday

[Arik (akwm)]

 >
 > Do you think we should include this in today's release?
 >

I think there are too many outstanding issues (may take a little bit
to clear out, but I think I know how). However, I believe some changes
to the trunk for thread-folding might affect motion, so if you wanted
to commit the hide-deleted functions then I could have a better idea
of where best to modify movement code.

Thanks,
~Arik

[Robert P. Goldman (rpgoldman)]

This seems to have had some interesting work on it, but now it's been almost three years. Arik, do you have code you could share?