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A terminal based mail user agent based on notmuch
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tag replacement in thread and mail list #492

Closed frasertweedale closed 1 year ago

frasertweedale commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Tags (e.g. inbox, replied, attachment, flagged, etc) take up significant horizontal space in the Thread and Mail list.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like a (customisable) facility to replace particular tags with a shorter string e.g. a single char or emoji. For example, replied replaced with ↩️, attachment with 📎, and so on. A replacement must allow more than 1 Char, to allow for combining/modifier codepoints. We can ship with a default set or maybe two (one ASCII, one emoji) of replacements for special tags.

Describe alternatives you've considered Do nothing and put up with loss of horizontal space for actual subject.

romanofski commented 1 year ago

Yeah I've seen those translations happen in other editors. I wonder if a naive implementation is just a map we can look up the icons for each tag. Could perhaps be stored in the Config?

frasertweedale commented 1 year ago

@romanofski I already have a branch. Will push it soon.