[MlMt] Two ways threads expand

John Cooper mailmate at coopercontent.com
Fri Apr 20 16:34:54 EDT 2018


John Cooper wrote (at 8:11 on 20 Apr 2018):

> Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote (at 6:02 on 20 Apr 2018):
>
>> On 19 Apr 2018, at 14:55, John Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> I bind the semicolon key to operations that are intended to expand 
>>> the current thread and select the first message in the thread:
>>>
>>> 	";" = ( "expandThread:", "rootOfThread:" );
>>>
>>> In practice, I find that sometimes this opens the thread without 
>>> changing the mail list view (as I expect) and sometimes the view 
>>> changes to search result view, where messages that are not in the 
>>> thread are hidden. I haven't been able to figure out why. Can anyone 
>>> explain?
>>
>> I believe that should only happen if the root of the thread is not in 
>> the current mailbox.
>
> I just read this morning's large collection of MailMate threads in my 
> smart mailbox for MailMate. All the threads opened in the smart 
> mailbox except for two. I haven't fully tested it yet, but my working 
> hypothesis is that it depends on whether any of the threads have 
> already been opened or closed by clicking.

On further consideration, I think you're exactly right--it depends on 
the location of the root of the thread. Thanks.
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