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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Well, the fact that I don't use Rmail doesn't mean that I'm not 
> > familiar with that feature, which exists in other MUAs.
>
> If you think about this as "filtering", then you have different features 
> in mind, not the ones discussed here.

I just tried Rmail, again I had a very positive impression, and again I 
regret that it works only with mbox files and not with Maildirs.

Anyway, unless I misunderstand something, the "summary" in Rmail is called 
the message "index" or "list" by other MUAs.  And the rmail-summary-by-* 
commands are called "filter", "select" (a subset of messages) or "limit" 
(the index to a subset of messages) by other MUAs.  Is "limit" perhaps a 
better word?

For example, rmail-summary-by-recipients would become "Display a summary 
limited to messages with the given RECIPIENTS."  This seems close to what 
the manual already says: "C-M-r makes a partial summary mentioning only 
the messages that have one or more recipients matching the regular 
expression rcpts".

And rmail-summary-apply-filters-consecutively would be 
rmail-summary-gradual-limiting or rmail-summary-incremental-limiting.