TODO: Note idea for a new "notmuch compose"

[notmuch] / TODO

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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
 
 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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+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.
+

 Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
 if set.
 
 Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
 if set.
 


@@ -123,6 +130,13 @@ and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort=
 
 notmuch command-line tool
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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
 Fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread.
 
 Implement "notmuch search --exclude-threads=<search-terms>" to allow


@@ -318,3 +332,11 @@ 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.
 
 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).