X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=9834d73a7476e9d5ddab1e4de189a4d6ff37ccc0;hp=85ef2f586e2ffa4cbd21671569043c0cb57a4cd5;hb=128b6259ee327adf9189b81034b3b6962e8b9dbc;hpb=7d06e14e79f41c485f6cb448994498c5581dc69d diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 85ef2f58..9834d73a 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -6,8 +6,15 @@ 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. +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. @@ -31,8 +38,6 @@ 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. @@ -41,46 +46,19 @@ 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. - -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 +Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode. - Recent searches: +Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either +line. - 1 from:"someone special" and tag:unread - 34 tag:notmuch and tag:todo +Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P. - Click (or press Enter) on any search to see the results. - Right-click (or press Space) on any recent search to save it. +Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open 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). +Add a binding to open all closed messages. - 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 ---------- @@ -90,6 +68,13 @@ 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 @@ -103,21 +88,9 @@ 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 @@ -169,8 +142,6 @@ 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). @@ -208,6 +179,43 @@ 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 + +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 @@ -218,7 +226,7 @@ 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 +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). @@ -227,24 +235,14 @@ re-index these for existing messages at the next database upgrade). 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.