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Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:52:28 +0000


That's okay, thanks. But it's only the beginning of my problem. How do you describe the effect of applying a filter on top of one or more other filters? Andrea wants to use "intersection", but I tend to think this is too "mathematical" and too vague to explain clearly what happens. What would be a good terminology for that?

I think there are two possibilities when adding another filter: either broadening the already existing filtering ("union" in mathematical terms) or narrowing the already existing filtering ("intersection" in mathematical terms).

It's what you call "intersection", obviously.


Yes, my point was to mention the two less mathematical words: broadening and narrowing.

That being said, I don't user Rmail but I don't think it obvious that filtering is always "intersection". Someone may filter their inbox to see mails from Alice, and add mails from Alice to the filtering.



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