X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=8783ebb61be9a6f42a7407a5690e6c8edaff683c;hp=8e81b57dc683e6db28af1b6b1d65302a90c3bb27;hb=8aa339ac770f77009593b77dfdc68cff53fa02ae;hpb=f8a14b698fbdcd5a4748f3104d9c39e9f8015698 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 8e81b57d..8783ebb6 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,17 +1,136 @@ -Rename notmuch_thread_results_t and notmuch_message_results_t to -notmuch_threads_t and notmuch_messages_t respectively. +Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users +---------------------------------------------------------- +1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain -Add a talloc context as the first argument to each command in -notmuch.c. +2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them) -Write a "notmuch show" that displays a single thread. +3. Allow an easy way to remove excess tags, (date-based search) + +4. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below) + +5. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast. + +Emacs interface (notmuch.el) +---------------------------- +Make the keybindings help ('?') display the summary of each command's +documentation, not the function name. + +Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific +tables that add to it. + +Add a command to archive all threads in a search view. + +Lazy searching: call "notmuch search" with --first and --max to fill +just a screenful of results, and then fill in more as ther user pages +through the buffer. + +Add a '|' binding from the search view. + +Add a binding to run a search from notmuch-show-mode. + +When a thread has been entirely read, start out by closing all +messages except those that matched the search terms. + +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 messags in +the search query). + +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). + +Portability +----------- +Fix configure script to test each compiler warning we want to use. + +Implement strndup locally (or call talloc_strndup instead). + +Implement getline locally, (look at gnulib). + +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 +------------------------- +Teach "notmuch search" to return many different kinds of results. Some +ideas: + + notmuch search --for threads # Default if no --for is given + notmuch search --for messages + notmuch search --for tags + notmuch search --for addresses + notmuch search --for 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. Until we get the +Xapian bugs fixed that are making this operation slow, we really need +to let the user know that things are still moving. + +Add a "-f " option to select an alternate configuration +file. + +Fix notmuch.c to call add_timestamp/get_timestamp with path names +relative to the database path. (Otherwise, moving the database to a +new directory will result in notmuch creating new timestamp documents +and leaving stale ones behind.) + +Ensure that "notmuch new" is sane if its first, giant indexing session +gets interrupted, (that is, ensure that any results indexed so far are +flushed). + +Fix notmuch.c to use a DIR prefix for directory timestamps, (the idea +being that it can then add other non-directory timestamps such as for +noting how far back in the past mail has been indexed, and whether it +needs to re-tag messages based on a theoretical "auto-tags" +configuration file). + +Make "notmuch new" notice when a mail directory has gone more than a +month without receiving new mail and use that to trigger the printing +of the note that the user might want to mark the directory read-only. + +Also make "notmuch new" optionally able to just mark those month-old +directories read-only on its own. (Could conflict with low-volume +lists such as announce lists if they are setup to deliver to their own +maildirs.) + +notmuch library +--------------- +Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need +to be handled differently). + +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. + +General +------- Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c). Write a test suite. Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite. + +Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup +database for the same corpus of email.