TODO: Add some tasks, delete some tasks.

[notmuch] / TODO

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@@ -4,30 +4,17 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
 
 2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them)
 
-3. Allow an easy way to remove excess tags, (date-based search)
-
-4. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below)
-
-5. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast.
+3. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast.
 
 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
 ----------------------------
-Make the keybindings help ('?') display the summary of each command's
-documentation, not the function name.
-
 Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific
 tables that add to it.
 
 Add a command to archive all threads in a search view.
-
-Lazy searching: call "notmuch search" with --first and --max to fill
-just a screenful of results, and then fill in more as ther user pages
-through the buffer.
-
+       
 Add a '|' binding from the search view.
 
-Add a binding to run a search from notmuch-show-mode.
-
 When a thread has been entirely read, start out by closing all
 messages except those that matched the search terms.
 
@@ -49,10 +36,6 @@ Portability
 -----------
 Fix configure script to test each compiler warning we want to use.
 
-Implement strndup locally (or call talloc_strndup instead).
-
-Implement getline locally, (look at gnulib).
-
 Completion
 ----------
 Fix bash completion to complete multiple search options (both --first
@@ -80,6 +63,10 @@ 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.
 
+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.
 
@@ -88,10 +75,6 @@ relative to the database path. (Otherwise, moving the database to a
 new directory will result in notmuch creating new timestamp documents
 and leaving stale ones behind.)
 
-Ensure that "notmuch new" is sane if its first, giant indexing session
-gets interrupted, (that is, ensure that any results indexed so far are
-flushed).
-
 Fix notmuch.c to use a DIR prefix for directory timestamps, (the idea
 being that it can then add other non-directory timestamps such as for
 noting how far back in the past mail has been indexed, and whether it
@@ -107,8 +90,26 @@ directories read-only on its own. (Could conflict with low-volume
 lists such as announce lists if they are setup to deliver to their own
 maildirs.)
 
+Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when
+indexing.
+
 notmuch library
 ---------------
+Index content from citations, please.
+
+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 enpoint 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).
+
 Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need
 to be handled differently).