X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=08f0882bcc1a8e9e0bd6015ada0a91c4156056d1;hp=572dac8ee3e3709d5a78fb7ddb496a04950bc6bc;hb=6dcb7592e32ed5140ea0c0357ce78d6a37af6066;hpb=3f8dfc36c470afa2ae0a342cee45c510281c77f9 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 572dac8e..08f0882b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ 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. +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. @@ -31,43 +35,27 @@ 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. - Make '=' count from the end rather than from the beginning if more than half-way through the buffer. -Emacs saved-search interface ----------------------------- -Here's a proposal Carl wrote (id:87einafy4u.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org): - - So what I'm imagining for the default notmuch view is something like - this: - - Welcome to notmuch. - - Notmuch search: _________________________________________ +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). - Saved searches: +Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode. - 55,342 All messages - 22 Inbox +Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either +line. - Recent searches: +Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P. - 1 from:"someone special" and tag:unread - 34 tag:notmuch and tag:todo +Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages. - Click (or press Enter) on any search to see the results. - Right-click (or press Space) on any recent search to save it. +Add a binding to open all closed messages. - So the "saved searches" portion of the view is basically just what - notmuch-folder displays now. Above that there's an obvious place to - start a new search, (in a slightly more "web-browser-like" way than the - typical mini-buffer approach). - - All recent searches appear in the list at the bottom automatically, and - there's the documented mechanism for saving a search, (giving it a name - and having it appear above). +Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open +messages. Portability ----------- @@ -81,6 +69,13 @@ and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort= notmuch command-line tool ------------------------- +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 @@ -94,21 +89,9 @@ 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. -Teach "notmuch search" to return many different kinds of results. Some -ideas: - - 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). -Add a "--count-only" (or so?) option to "notmuch search" for returning -the count of search results. - Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator. Fix "notmuch restore" to operate in a single pass much like "notmuch @@ -128,6 +111,20 @@ 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 an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a @@ -146,14 +143,10 @@ 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). -Actually compile and install a libnotmuch shared library. - 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 the user to specify custom headers to be indexed. - 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. @@ -187,17 +180,63 @@ notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC: Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email addresses. -Test suite ----------- -Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite. +Add symbol hiding so that we don't risk leaking any private symbols +into the shared-library interface. -Modularize test suite (to be able to run individual tests). +Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are +wrapped in a try/catch block. -Summarize test results at the end. +Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC: -Fix the insane quoting nightmare of the test suite, (and once we do -that we can actually test the implicit-phrase search feature such as -"notmuch search 'body search (phrase)'" + ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the + database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact + +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). + +Start indexing the message file's directory and make it available for +search as "folder:" (and re-index this value 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). + +Test suite +---------- +Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite. General ------- @@ -205,3 +244,11 @@ 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. + +Fix notmuch build system to work with gold, (apt-get +binutils-gold). Need the notmuch binary to explicitly link againsts +libraries it depends on, (rather than just getting them via +libnotmuch).