Re: [Evolution] RFE: How about a Show Thread operation?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 04:05 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2010, 00:19 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > In mailing-list folders, especially high-traffic ones, I don't usually
> > have All Messages selected in the Show drop-down menu. It might be New,
> > or Last 5 Days, or some label. Nevertheless I do sometimes want to see
> > the context of a message (usually a new one but not always). IOW I want
> > to see the thread the message belongs to.
> >
> > Currently the only way to be sure of getting everything is to select All
> > Messages. It would be nice to have the option of showing all messages in
> > the thread to which the current message belongs. I guess a really fancy
> > version would be to show *only* the thread (those familiar with Emacs
> > and its concept of "narrowing" will know what I mean), but it doesn't
> > need to be that elaborate.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> a) Select the subject of the message, paste it into the search field and
> select all messages in the show drop down box.

No good, because it will catch anything with the same subject (in fact
anything of which that subject is a substring). Subjects do not define
threads. It's also laborious.

> b) Use the context menu to create a search folder, using e.g. the
> subject as criterion.

I don't want to create a search folder every time I need to glance at
the context of a message. And again, it's laborious.

Note that we already have Ctrl-H (select thread) so it's not like Evo
doesn't have the machinery for this, however Ctrl-H only selects
messages which are visible according to the Show: criterion. In fact a
kludge solution would be to make Ctrl-H always select from the entire
current folder.

poc