X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4f3b98a7f942a66a928ec989eebc45ed23a53dcc;hp=a79d8758995c1cf8d11c38654ac0609a16a3072a;hb=ddc44ae0d02c7f92640b5e560fca5fddbd7b6c98;hpb=b607965886e0a46a47bbe9575c0b8da0728e2cbf diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a79d8758..4f3b98a7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,28 +1,47 @@ -Notmuch 0.16 (2013-MM-DD) + +Notmuch 0.17 (UNRELEASED) ========================= Command-Line Interface ---------------------- -Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent +New options to better support handling duplicate messages - Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever - worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in - code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now - possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent" - configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent - everywhere. + If more than one message file is associated with a message-id, + `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new + `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to + print for each message. + + `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the + number of files associated with matching messages. This may be + bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates + (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id). + +Emacs Interface +--------------- + +Built-in help improvements + + Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by + `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by + `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands. + +Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03) +========================= + +Command-Line Interface +---------------------- + +Support for delivering messages to Maildir + + There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir + folder and notmuch index. `notmuch count --batch` option `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage. -Configuration file saves follow symbolic links - - The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow - symbolic links instead of overwrite them. - `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags @@ -30,17 +49,24 @@ Configuration file saves follow symbolic links resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the messages. -Top level option to specify configuration file +Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent - It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the - command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option. + Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever + worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in + code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now + possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent" + configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent + everywhere. -Top level option to redirect writes to stderr +Configuration file saves follow symbolic links - With `notmuch --stderr=FILE` all writes to stderr are redirected to - the specified file. If FILE is '-', stderr is redirected to stdout. + The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow + symbolic links instead of overwrite them. -Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed. +Top level option to specify configuration file + + It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the + command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option. Bash command-line completion @@ -54,27 +80,21 @@ Bash command-line completion `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the bash-completion package. -Vim Front-End -------------- - -The vim based front end to notmuch is deprecated and moved to contrib. -We haven't been able to support this as well as we would like, and it -has accumulated bugs and gaps in functionality. We recommend that -people packaging notmuch no longer provide binary packages for -notmuch-vim, but of course that is their decision. +Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed. Emacs Interface --------------- -New keymap to view/save parts +New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings - To view or save a single MIME part of a message, use the new "." - submap (e.g., ". s" to save, ". v" to view). Previously, these keys - were only available when point was on a part button and they did not - have the "." prefix, so they were difficult to invoke (impossible if - a part did not have a button) and clashed with other bindings. - These new bindings also appear in show's help, so you don't have to - memorize them. + The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed + with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with + point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were + restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on + part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other + bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when + there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in + show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them. Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory` @@ -82,12 +102,40 @@ Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory` of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`. This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`. +Key bindings for next/previous thread + + Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and + previous thread in the search results. + +Better handling of errors in search buffers + + Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode + now reports errors in the minibuffer. + +Faster search and show + + Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more + efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a + result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and + threads should show faster. + No Emacs 22 support The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code in question was now removed from this release. +Vim Front-End +------------- + +The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby +bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder. + +Python Bindings +--------------- + +Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems. + Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17) ===========================