TODO: We should fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread.

[notmuch] / TODO

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@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
 
 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
 ----------------------------
+Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
+if set.
+
+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.
 
@@ -32,6 +38,8 @@ 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.
@@ -44,6 +52,8 @@ and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort=
 
 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).
@@ -56,11 +66,11 @@ option (or similar) to "notmuch show".)
 Teach "notmuch search" to return many different kinds of results. Some
 ideas:
 
-       notmuch search --for threads    # Default if no --for is given
-       notmuch search --for messages
-       notmuch search --for tags
-       notmuch search --for addresses
-       notmuch search --for terms
+       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).
@@ -68,6 +78,8 @@ for selecting what gets printed).
 Add a "--count-only" (or so?) option to "notmuch search" for returning
 the count of search results.
 
+Add documented syntax for searching all threads/messages.
+
 Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator. Until we get the
 Xapian bugs fixed that are making this operation slow, we really need
 to let the user know that things are still moving.
@@ -140,6 +152,29 @@ 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.
+
 General
 -------
 Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).