added syntax files for search and show screens

[notmuch] / TODO

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@@ -4,11 +4,9 @@ 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)
 
 
 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)
+3. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below)

 
 

-4. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below)
-
-5. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast.
+4. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast.

 
 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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@@ -112,6 +110,15 @@ indexing.
 
 notmuch library
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 notmuch library
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+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'de 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.
+

 Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need
 to be handled differently).
 
 Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need
 to be handled differently).
 


@@ -127,6 +134,11 @@ 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.
 
 (tag-name, search-specification). The database is responsible for
 ensuring that the virtual tag is always consistent.
 

+Think about optimizing chunked searches (max-threads > 0) to avoid
+repeating work. That would be saving state from the previous chunk and
+reusing it if the next search is the next chunk with the same search
+string.
+

 General
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 Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
 General
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 Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).