[MlMt] Deleting parent message does not delete children when expanded

[Antonio Leding]

After a bit more thought, I agree that the current behavior is probably 
the best of all worlds.  When expanded, only messages that are 
highlighted are deleted — And when collapsed, the entire thread is 
deleted.

Thanks for discussing through this…


On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:54, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> I think a user might find it surprising if messages that are NOT 
> selected were deleted.
> -sam
>
> On 3 Sep 2020, at 15:52, Antonio Leding wrote:
>
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> So the delete-the-entire-thread when collapsed makes sense to me as 
>> well and I’m not suggesting that should change.  But my expectation 
>> was that when a message is deleted, all of its children would also be 
>> deleted regardless of the thread being expanded or collapsed.  
>> Basically that the current collapsed behavior would also occur when 
>> expanded as well.
>>
>> Of course, all messages above the highlighted message would remain 
>> unmodified…
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:46, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>>
>>> On 3 Sep 2020, at 14:46, Antonio Leding wrote:
>>>
>>>> In essence the app appears to treat a collapsed chain as 
>>>> highlighted if the parent is highlighted.
>>>
>>> I don’t know if Benny intended this, but it makes sense to me and 
>>> I rely on it.
>>> -sam
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