X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=4dda6f4654895d5b1aa7edf0b4915bbd20d17156;hp=cd38c31ef90a40f53f97be44aab468b742428d18;hb=8ea82928b91e847298e4586f9db9734e727a418a;hpb=f117d80d9b1ef688aa4815c83b2cc9773f76a995 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index cd38c31e..4dda6f46 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ 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) ---------------------------- +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 @@ -13,11 +14,10 @@ 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. -Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region -if set. - Fix '*' to work by simply calling '+' or '-' on a region consisting of -the entire buffer. +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. @@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ 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 messags in +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). -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. @@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ 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). -Implement Fcc and use it for all messages, (whether a new composition, -a reply, or a forward). This again may require a notmuch-message-mode -that extends message-mode. - Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode. Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either @@ -63,65 +59,9 @@ Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages. Add a binding to open all closed messages. -Make all authors and subjects available to isearch, (hidden by default -but with magic expansion while isearching). - -Fix notmuch-hello as follows: - - 1. Change the "notmuch" and message count in the welcome sentence to - not be buttons. - - 2. Put the saved searches (if any) before the search bar. - - 3. When `notmuch-hello' (or even `notmuch' when it gets its new name) - is invoked directly, move to the first button, (go to point-min and - then call widget-forward). That is, if the user has any saved - searches, then point will be on the first one. If the user has no - saved searches, then point will be on the search bar. - - 4. Fix refresh of notmuch-hello to leave point in the same logical - place, (the same saved-search widget at least). - Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open messages. -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: _________________________________________ - - Saved searches: - - 55,342 All messages - 22 Inbox - - Recent searches: - - 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. - Completion ---------- Fix bash completion to complete multiple search options (both --first @@ -130,6 +70,28 @@ 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 @@ -143,21 +105,9 @@ 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 @@ -171,7 +121,7 @@ Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when indexing. Replace the "notmuch part --part=id" command with "notmuch show ---part=id", (David Edmonson wants to rewrite some of "notmuch show" to +--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 @@ -193,6 +143,17 @@ 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. @@ -209,8 +170,6 @@ 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). @@ -259,6 +218,9 @@ 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. @@ -295,30 +257,23 @@ 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). + +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 ---------- -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). @@ -328,8 +283,3 @@ 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).