X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=260ffe18b37c778fcb7b13325f78547e76257aaa;hp=f352faf2b19375d6ff2c94c7df5bb82add858146;hb=59a9c36316293b161528097a73c72d5f5ed58781;hpb=8fede713376ca5f18eece52aa491b5ec93f4af90 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index f352faf2..260ffe18 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,12 +2,17 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain -2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them) - Emacs interface (notmuch.el) ---------------------------- -Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region -if set. +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. @@ -27,51 +32,33 @@ current message/thread and make searches not return deleted messages by default, (unless the user asks explicitly for deleted messags 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). -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: +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). - Welcome to notmuch. +Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode. - Notmuch search: _________________________________________ +Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either +line. - Saved searches: +Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P. - 55,342 All messages - 22 Inbox +Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages. - Recent searches: +Add a binding to open all closed messages. - 1 from:"someone special" and tag:unread - 34 tag:notmuch and tag:todo - - Click (or press Enter) on any search to see the results. - Right-click (or press Space) on any recent search to save it. - - 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). - -Portability ------------ -Fix configure script to test each compiler warning we want to use. +Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open +messages. Completion ---------- @@ -81,6 +68,28 @@ and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort= 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 @@ -94,21 +103,9 @@ 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 @@ -138,8 +135,23 @@ Fix to avoid this ugly message: 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. @@ -156,8 +168,6 @@ 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). @@ -195,6 +205,46 @@ notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC: 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 @@ -205,33 +255,26 @@ 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 ana 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). +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). + Test suite ---------- -Start testing --format=json. - Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite. -Modularize test suite (to be able to run individual tests). - -Summarize test results at the end. - -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)'" - -Test "notmuch reply" choosing the correct email address from the -Received header when no configured email address appears in To or Cc. - 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.