Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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-Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
-if set.
+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.
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.
-
Make '=' count from the end rather than from the beginning if more
than half-way through the buffer.
-Emacs saved-search interface
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-Here's a proposal Carl wrote (id:87einafy4u.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org):
-
- So what I'm imagining for the default notmuch view is something like
- this:
-
- Welcome to notmuch.
-
- Notmuch search: _________________________________________
+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).
- Saved searches:
+Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode.
- 55,342 All messages
- 22 Inbox
+Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either
+line.
- Recent searches:
+Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P.
- 1 from:"someone special" and tag:unread
- 34 tag:notmuch and tag:todo
+Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages.
- Click (or press Enter) on any search to see the results.
- Right-click (or press Space) on any recent search to save it.
+Add a binding to open all closed messages.
- So the "saved searches" portion of the view is basically just what
- notmuch-folder displays now. Above that there's an obvious place to
- start a new search, (in a slightly more "web-browser-like" way than the
- typical mini-buffer approach).
-
- All recent searches appear in the list at the bottom automatically, and
- there's the documented mechanism for saving a search, (giving it a name
- and having it appear above).
+Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open
+messages.
Portability
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notmuch command-line tool
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+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
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
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 an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a
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
same message-ID values as sup).
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
+
+Search syntax
+-------------
+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
Start indexing the List-Id header, (and re-index this header for
existing messages at the next database upgrade).
-Start indexing the message file's directory ana make it available for
+Start indexing the message file's directory and make it available for
search as "folder:" (and re-index this value for existing messages at
the next database upgrade).
Test suite
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-Start testing --format=json.
-
Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite.
-Modularize test suite (to be able to run individual tests).
-
-Summarize test results at the end.
-
-Fix the insane quoting nightmare of the test suite, (and once we do
-that we can actually test the implicit-phrase search feature such as
-"notmuch search 'body search (phrase)'"
-
-Test "notmuch reply" choosing the correct email address from the
-Received header when no configured email address appears in To or Cc.
-
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.
+
+Fix notmuch build system to work with gold, (apt-get
+binutils-gold). Need the notmuch binary to explicitly link againsts
+libraries it depends on, (rather than just getting them via
+libnotmuch).
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