X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=news%2Frelease-0.4.mdwn;fp=news%2Frelease-0.4.mdwn;h=a0c6cb750f0c522f5b15ceacded07d4f133633eb;hb=56d23b7e00d8638bbfff344965fc14ef850c9178;hp=6fd661d55ecfaf24517b0ff7e96d359a03c56664;hpb=8c7fc52a0e5d9d276d86d0ba3503f1d4f7f96397;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/news/release-0.4.mdwn b/news/release-0.4.mdwn index 6fd661d..a0c6cb7 100644 --- a/news/release-0.4.mdwn +++ b/news/release-0.4.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01) New command-line features ------------------------- -#### `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)` +### `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)` This new option allows for particular items to be returned from notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ New command-line features "$file" done -#### `notmuch show --format=mbox ` +### `notmuch show --format=mbox ` This new option allows for the messages matching a search specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd" @@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ New command-line features beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters followed by the 5 characters "From ". -#### `notmuch config [get|set]
. [value ...]` +### `notmuch config [get|set]
. [value ...]` The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any custom items stored in the configuration file. -#### Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply" +### Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply" We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also, @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ New command-line features New library features -------------------- -#### Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort` +### Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort` These are simply functions for querying properties of a `notmuch_query_t` object. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ New library features New emacs features ------------------ -#### Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory) +### Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory) All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database @@ -64,21 +64,21 @@ New emacs features can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the notmuch customize interface. -#### Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe +### Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command. -#### Optional support for detecting inline patches +### Optional support for detecting inline patches This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting). -#### Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply +### Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ New emacs features that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface. -#### Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other +### Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change, @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ New emacs features case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the notmuch customize interface. -#### Make hidden author names still available for incremental search +### Make hidden author names still available for incremental search When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ New emacs features searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden names. -#### New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse) +### New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse) Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments, @@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ New emacs features New build-system features ------------------------- -#### Various portability fixes have been applied +### Various portability fixes have been applied These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD, and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now more portable than ever before. -#### Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install +### Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ New build-system features the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. -#### Check compiler/linker options before using them +### Check compiler/linker options before using them The configure script now carefully checks that any desired compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ New build-system features New test-suite features ----------------------- -#### New modularization of test suite +### New modularization of test suite Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ New test-suite features it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful. -#### New testing of emacs interface +### New testing of emacs interface The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ New test-suite features General bug fixes ----------------- -#### Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted +### Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a @@ -182,21 +182,21 @@ General bug fixes The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted. -#### Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers +### Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed. -#### Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit" +### Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit" Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces parsing the notmuch results). -#### Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception +### Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception -#### Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads` fails +### Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads` fails Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ General bug fixes Emacs bug fixes --------------- -#### Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]" +### Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]" Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Emacs bug fixes mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in the emacs interface. -#### Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".." +### Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".." The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3. Debian-specific fixes --------------------- -#### Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default +### Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to