X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;fp=TODO;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=4dda6f4654895d5b1aa7edf0b4915bbd20d17156;hb=d51b7842149dcaedd02c4e5b6ba74a5bccd926a9;hpb=8ea82928b91e847298e4586f9db9734e727a418a diff --git a/TODO b/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index 4dda6f46..00000000 --- a/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,285 +0,0 @@ -Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users ----------------------------------------------------------- -1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain - -Emacs interface (notmuch.el) ----------------------------- -Add notmuch-bcc and notmuch-cc for setting default Bcc and Cc values, -(should affect the message-setup-hook). - -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. - -Fix '*' to work by simply calling '+' or '-' on a region consisting of -the entire buffer, (this would avoid one race condition---while still -leaving other race conditions---but could also potentially make '*' a -very expensive operation). - -Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific -tables that add to it. - -Add a '|' binding from the search view. - -Add support for choosing from one of the user's configured email -addresses for the From line. - -Make 'notmuch-show-pipe-message have a private history. - -Add support for a delete keybinding that adds a "deleted" tag to the -current message/thread and make searches not return deleted messages -by default, (unless the user asks explicitly for deleted messages in -the search query). - -Add keybindings for next/previous thread. - -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). - -Make '=' count from the end rather than from the beginning if more -than half-way through the buffer. - -Fix to automatically wrap long headers (for RFC compliance) before -sending. This should probably just be fixed in message-mode itself, -(but perhaps we can have a notmuch-message-mode that layers this on -top). - -Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode. - -Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either -line. - -Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P. - -Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages. - -Add a binding to open all closed messages. - -Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open -messages. - -Completion ----------- -Fix bash completion to complete multiple search options (both --first -and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort= -(oldest-first or newest-first). - -notmuch command-line tool -------------------------- -Add support to "notmuch search" and "notmuch show" to allow for -listing of duplicate messages, (distinct filenames with the same -Message-ID). I'm not sure what the option should be named. Perhaps ---with-duplicates ? - -Add a -0 option to "notmuch search" so that one can safely deal with -any filename with: - - notmuch search --output=files -0 | xargs -0 - -"notmuch setup" should use realpath() before replacing the -configuration file. The ensures that the final target file of any -intermediate symbolic links is what is actually replaced, (rather than -any symbolic link). - -Replace "notmuch reply" with "notmuch compose --reply ". -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 " to support getting at alternate -email addresses. - -Fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread. - -Implement "notmuch search --exclude-threads=" to allow -for excluding muted threads, (and any other negative, thread-based -filtering that the user wants to do). - -Fix "notmuch show" so that the UI doesn't fail to show a thread that -is visible in a search buffer, but happens to no longer match the -current search. (Perhaps add a --matching= -option (or similar) to "notmuch show".) For now, this is being worked -around in the emacs interface by noticing that "notmuch show" returns -nothing and re-rerunning the command without the extra arguments. - -Add a "--format" option to "notmuch search", (something printf-like -for selecting what gets printed). - -Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator. - -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 " option to select an alternate configuration -file. - -Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when -indexing. - -Replace the "notmuch part --part=id" command with "notmuch show ---part=id", (David Edmondson wants to rewrite some of "notmuch show" to -provide more MIME-structure information in its output first). - -Replace the "notmuch search-tags" command with "notmuch search ---output=tags". - -Fix to avoid this ugly message: - - (process:17197): gmime-CRITICAL **: g_mime_message_get_mime_part: assertion `GMIME_IS_MESSAGE (message)' failed - Warning: Not indexing empty mime part. - - This probably means adding a test case to generate that message, - filing an upstream bug against GMime, and then silencing the - notmuch-generated portion of the warning (so that once GMime is - fixed, this is all silent). - -Simplify notmuch-reply to simply print the headers (we have the -original values) rather than calling GMime (which encodes) and adding -the confusing gmime-filter-headers.c code (which decodes). - -notmuch library ---------------- -Add support for custom flag<->tag mappings. In the notmuch -configuration file this could be - - [maildir] - synchronize_flags = R:replied; D*:deleted; S:~unread; - -In the library interface this could be implemented with an array of -structures to define the mapping (flag character, tag name, -inverse-sense bit (~ above), and tag-when-any-file-flagged -vs. tag-when-all-files-flagged (* above)). - -Add an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a -filename. - -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 endpoint 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). - -Fix to use the *last* Message-ID header if multiple such headers are -encountered, (I noticed this is one thing that kept me from seeing the -same message-ID values as sup). - -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. - -Indicate to the user if two files with the same message ID have -content that is actually different in some interesting way. Perhaps -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: - - 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). - So then I might have a series that looks like this: - notmuch search --output=address_from tag:address_book_alias - notmuch search --output=address_to tag:sent - notmuch search --output=address_from - I think I might like that quite a bit. - 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. - -Add symbol hiding so that we don't risk leaking any private symbols -into the shared-library interface. - -Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are -wrapped in a try/catch block. - -Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC: - - ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the - database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact - -Fix the threading of a message that has a References: header but no -In-Reply-To: header (see id:"87lixxnxpb.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org"). - -Search syntax -------------- -Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags. - -Fix "notmuch search to:" to be less confusing. Many users expect this -to search for all messages with a To: header, but it instead searches -for all messages with the word "to". If we don't provide the first -behavior, perhaps we should exit on an error when a configured prefix -is provided with no value? - -Support "*" in all cases and not just as a special case. That is, "* " -should also work, as well as "* and tag:inbox". - -Implement a syntax for requesting set-theoertic operations on results -of multiple searches. For example, I would like to do: - - "tag:inbox" SET-SUBTRACT "tag:muted" - - as well as: - - "tag:notmuch and " SET-INTERSECT - "tag:notmuch and not (tag:merged or tag:postponed)" - - See id:3wdpr282yz2.fsf@testarossa.amd.com for more details on the - use cases of the above. - -Database changes ----------------- -Store a reference term for every message-id that appears in -References. We just started doing this for newly-added documents, but -at the next convenient database-schema upgrade, we should go back and -fix old messages to be consistent. - -Start indexing the List-Id header, (and re-index this header for -existing messages at the next database upgrade). - -Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed (and -re-index these for existing messages at the next database upgrade). - -Save filenames for files detected as "not an email file" in the -database. This would allow for two things: 1. Optimizing "notmuch new" -to not have to look at these files again (since they are potentially -large so the detection could be potentially slow). 2. A "notmuch -search" syntax could be added to allow the user to find these files, -(and perhaps delete them or move them away as appropriate). - -Fix filesystem/notmuch-new race condition by not updating database -mtime for a directory if it is the same as the current mtime. - -Test suite ----------- -Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite. - -General -------- -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. - -Makefile should print message teaching user about LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or -similar) if libdir is not set to a directory examined by ldconfig.