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-Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
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-1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain
-
-Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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-Add notmuch-bcc and notmuch-cc for setting default Bcc and Cc values,
-(should affect the message-setup-hook).
-
-Switch the notmuch-search view to use "notmuch search --format=json"
-to fix large classes of bugs regarding poorly-escaped output and lame
-regular expressions. (The most recently found, unfixed example is the
-sender's name containing ';' which causes emacs to drop a search
-result.) This may require removing the outer array from the current
-"notmuch search --format=json" results.
-
-Fix '*' to work by simply calling '+' or '-' on a region consisting of
-the entire buffer, (this would avoid one race condition---while still
-leaving other race conditions---but could also potentially make '*' a
-very expensive operation).
-
-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 messages in
-the search query).
-
-Add keybindings for next/previous thread.
-
-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).
-
-Make '=' count from the end rather than from the beginning if more
-than half-way through the buffer.
-
-Fix to automatically wrap long headers (for RFC compliance) before
-sending. This should probably just be fixed in message-mode itself,
-(but perhaps we can have a notmuch-message-mode that layers this on
-top).
-
-Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode.
-
-Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either
-line.
-
-Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P.
-
-Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages.
-
-Add a binding to open all closed messages.
-
-Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open
-messages.
-
-Completion
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-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
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-Add support to "notmuch search" and "notmuch show" to allow for
-listing of duplicate messages, (distinct filenames with the same
-Message-ID). I'm not sure what the option should be named. Perhaps
---with-duplicates ?
-
-Add a -0 option to "notmuch search" so that one can safely deal with
-any filename with:
-
- notmuch search --output=files -0 <terms> | xargs -0 <command>
-
-"notmuch setup" should use realpath() before replacing the
-configuration file. The ensures that the final target file of any
-intermediate symbolic links is what is actually replaced, (rather than
-any symbolic link).
-
-Replace "notmuch reply" with "notmuch compose --reply <search-terms>".
-This would enable a plain "notmuch compose" to be used to construct an
-initial message, (which would then have the properly configured name
-and email address in the From: line. We could also then easily support
-"notmuch compose --from <something>" to support getting at alternate
-email addresses.
-
-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.
-
-Add a "--format" option to "notmuch search", (something printf-like
-for selecting what gets printed).
-
-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.
-
-Replace the "notmuch part --part=id" command with "notmuch show
---part=id", (David Edmondson wants to rewrite some of "notmuch show" to
-provide more MIME-structure information in its output first).
-
-Replace the "notmuch search-tags" command with "notmuch search
---output=tags".
-
-Fix to avoid this ugly message:
-
- (process:17197): gmime-CRITICAL **: g_mime_message_get_mime_part: assertion `GMIME_IS_MESSAGE (message)' failed
- Warning: Not indexing empty mime part.
-
- This probably means adding a test case to generate that message,
- filing an upstream bug against GMime, and then silencing the
- notmuch-generated portion of the warning (so that once GMime is
- fixed, this is all silent).
-
-Simplify notmuch-reply to simply print the headers (we have the
-original values) rather than calling GMime (which encodes) and adding
-the confusing gmime-filter-headers.c code (which decodes).
-
-notmuch library
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-Add support for custom flag<->tag mappings. In the notmuch
-configuration file this could be
-
- [maildir]
- synchronize_flags = R:replied; D*:deleted; S:~unread;
-
-In the library interface this could be implemented with an array of
-structures to define the mapping (flag character, tag name,
-inverse-sense bit (~ above), and tag-when-any-file-flagged
-vs. tag-when-all-files-flagged (* above)).
-
-Add an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a
-filename.
-
-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).
-
-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
-same message-ID values as sup).
-
-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.
-
-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_query_count_messages to share code with
-notmuch_query_search_messages rather than duplicating code. (And
-consider renaming it as well.)
-
-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.
-
-Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email
-addresses.
-
-Add symbol hiding so that we don't risk leaking any private symbols
-into the shared-library interface.
-
-Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are
-wrapped in a try/catch block.
-
-Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC:
-
- ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the
- database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact
-
-Fix the threading of a message that has a References: header but no
-In-Reply-To: header (see id:"87lixxnxpb.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org").
-
-Search syntax
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-Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags.
-
-Fix "notmuch search to:" to be less confusing. Many users expect this
-to search for all messages with a To: header, but it instead searches
-for all messages with the word "to". If we don't provide the first
-behavior, perhaps we should exit on an error when a configured prefix
-is provided with no value?
-
-Support "*" in all cases and not just as a special case. That is, "* "
-should also work, as well as "* and tag:inbox".
-
-Implement a syntax for requesting set-theoertic operations on results
-of multiple searches. For example, I would like to do:
-
- "tag:inbox" SET-SUBTRACT "tag:muted"
-
- as well as:
-
- "tag:notmuch and <date-range>" SET-INTERSECT
- "tag:notmuch and not (tag:merged or tag:postponed)"
-
- See id:3wdpr282yz2.fsf@testarossa.amd.com for more details on the
- use cases of the above.
-
-Database changes
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-Store a reference term for every message-id that appears in
-References. We just started doing this for newly-added documents, but
-at the next convenient database-schema upgrade, we should go back and
-fix old messages to be consistent.
-
-Start indexing the List-Id header, (and re-index this header for
-existing messages at the next database upgrade).
-
-Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed (and
-re-index these for existing messages at the next database upgrade).
-
-Save filenames for files detected as "not an email file" in the
-database. This would allow for two things: 1. Optimizing "notmuch new"
-to not have to look at these files again (since they are potentially
-large so the detection could be potentially slow). 2. A "notmuch
-search" syntax could be added to allow the user to find these files,
-(and perhaps delete them or move them away as appropriate).
-
-Fix filesystem/notmuch-new race condition by not updating database
-mtime for a directory if it is the same as the current mtime.
-
-Test suite
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-Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite.
-
-General
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-Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
-
-Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup
-database for the same corpus of email.
-
-Makefile should print message teaching user about LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or
-similar) if libdir is not set to a directory examined by ldconfig.
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