-Add support to format a reply buffer for a particular message.
+Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
+----------------------------------------------------------
+1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain
-Selectively hide headers and bodies in notmuch-show mode in
-notmuch.el, (for example, for read messages).
+2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them)
-Compile and install a libnotmuch library.
+Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
+----------------------------
+Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
+if set.
-Make "notmuch setup" not index all messages, but only what it can do
-in a reasonable amount of time, (then add "notmuch index" so the user
-can complete the job when convenient).
+Fix '*' to work by simply calling '+' or '-' on a region consisting of
+the entire buffer.
+
+Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific
+tables that add to it.
+
+Add a '|' binding from the search view.
+
+Add support for choosing from one of the user's configured email
+addresses for the From line.
+
+Make 'notmuch-show-pipe-message have a private history.
+
+Add support for a delete keybinding that adds a "deleted" tag to the
+current message/thread and make searches not return deleted messages
+by default, (unless the user asks explicitly for deleted messags in
+the search query).
+
+Add support to "mute" a thread (add a "muted" tag and then don't
+display threads in searches by default where any message of the thread
+has the "muted" tag).
+
+Fix i-search to open up invisible citations as necessary.
+
+Portability
+-----------
+Fix configure script to test each compiler warning we want to use.
+
+Completion
+----------
+Fix bash completion to complete multiple search options (both --first
+and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort=
+(oldest-first or newest-first).
+
+notmuch command-line tool
+-------------------------
+Fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread.
+
+Implement "notmuch search --exclude-threads=<search-terms>" to allow
+for excluding muted threads, (and any other negative, thread-based
+filtering that the user wants to do).
+
+Fix "notmuch show" so that the UI doesn't fail to show a thread that
+is visible in a search buffer, but happens to no longer match the
+current search. (Perhaps add a --matching=<secondary-search-terms>
+option (or similar) to "notmuch show".) For now, this is being worked
+around in the emacs interface by noticing that "notmuch show" returns
+nothing and re-rerunning the command without the extra arguments.
+
+Teach "notmuch search" to return many different kinds of results. Some
+ideas:
+
+ notmuch search --output=threads # Default if no --output is given
+ notmuch search --output=messages
+ notmuch search --output=tags
+ notmuch search --output=addresses
+ notmuch search --output=terms
+
+Add a "--format" option to "notmuch search", (something printf-like
+for selecting what gets printed).
+
+Add a "--count-only" (or so?) option to "notmuch search" for returning
+the count of search results.
+
+Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator.
+
+Fix "notmuch restore" to operate in a single pass much like "notmuch
+dump" does, rather than doing N searches into the database, each
+matching 1/N messages.
+
+Add a "-f <filename>" option to select an alternate configuration
+file.
+
+Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when
+indexing.
+
+notmuch library
+---------------
+Provide a sane syntax for date ranges. First, we don't want to require
+both endpoints to be specified. For example it would be nice to be
+able to say things like "since:2009-01-1" or "until:2009-01-1" and
+have the other endpoint be implicit. Second we'd like to support
+relative specifications of time such as "since:'2 months ago'". To do
+any of this we're probably going to need to break down an write our
+own parser for the query string rather than using Xapian's QueryParser
+class.
+
+Make failure to read a file (such as a permissions problem) a warning
+rather than an error (should be similar to the existing warning for a
+non-mail file).
+
+Actually compile and install a libnotmuch shared library.
Fix to use the *last* Message-ID header if multiple such headers are
encountered, (I noticed this is one thing that kept me from seeing the
Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed.
-Add support for automatic tagging of new messages based on particular
-search criteria, (likely using an InMemory database for the new
-messages).
+Add support for configuring "virtual tags" which are a tuple of
+(tag-name, search-specification). The database is responsible for
+ensuring that the virtual tag is always consistent.
-Fix notmuch.c to call add_timestamp/get_timestampt with path names
-relative to the database path. (Otherwise, moving the database to a
-new directory will result in notmuch creating new timestamp documents
-and leaving stale ones behind.)
+Indicate to the user if two files with the same message ID have
+content that is actually different in some interesting way. Perhaps
+notmuch initially sees all changes as interesting, and quickly learns
+from the user which changes are not interesting (such as the very
+common mailing-list footer).
-Fix notmuch.c to use a DIR prefix for directory timestamps, (the idea
-being that it can then add other non-directory timestamps such as for
-noting how far back in the past mail has been indexed, and whether it
-needs to re-tag messages based on a theoretical "auto-tags"
-configuration file).
+Fix notmuch_query_count_messages to share code with
+notmuch_query_search_messages rather than duplicating code. (And
+consider renaming it as well.)
-Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
+Provide a mechanism for doing automatic address completion based on
+notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC:
+
+ <cworth> I guess all it would really have to be would be a way
+ to configure a series of searches to try in turn,
+ (presenting ambiguities at a given single level, and
+ advancing to the next level only if one level
+ returned no matches).
+ <cworth> So then I might have a series that looks like this:
+ <cworth> notmuch search --output=address_from tag:address_book_alias
+ <cworth> notmuch search --output=address_to tag:sent
+ <cworth> notmuch search --output=address_from
+ <cworth> I think I might like that quite a bit.
+ <cworth> And then we have a story for an address book for
+ non-emacs users.
-Write a test suite.
+Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email
+addresses.
+
+General
+-------
+Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite.
+
+Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup
+database for the same corpus of email.