From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: web-sup@superscript.com (William Erik Baxter)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:04:39 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] Why inbox-mode instead of default search?
Message-ID: <1254070015-sup-5151@kronos>

Why does sup have a separate mode for viewing the inbox rather than simply
applying a default search (possibly configurable) and displaying the results
with search-results-mode?  Like a number of other posters to the list, I wanted
to refine my inbox search.  But the requisite key binding exists only in
search-results-mode and not in inbox-mode.

Using inbox as an ordinary label with search-results-mode instead of inbox-mode
offers several advantages over the separate inbox-mode: less code, less
separate modality, ability to refine the inbox search.  It introduces the
possibility of closing the inbox window, readily addressed with a key binding
to perform the default search.  What are the disadvantages?  One loses the
difference in the archiving behavior between the two modes.  The inbox label
would appear in the label editors.  The program may need new code to handle a
new no-windows case.  Perhaps efficiency considerations enter here. 

Thanks, W.