X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=98a17be4020bfdcb51fd2e2f4762acceab582026;hp=d2a787a7d14a66ba902264fa8dbf163982a58016;hb=9ff063ded782524393fbfa388a0c09fef1a6c933;hpb=436b8a2fda3f0ba894cfd5f5332557cdff1663b0 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index d2a787a7..98a17be4 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,43 +1,138 @@ +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) ---------------------------- -Make hidden components self documenting, such as: +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. + +Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific +tables that add to it. + +Add a '|' binding from the search view. + +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). + +Fix i-search to open up invisible citations as necessary. + +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). - [24-line citation, press 'c' to display.] + 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). -Add support to compose a reply to the current messaage. +Portability +----------- +Fix configure script to test each compiler warning we want to use. + +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 ------------------------- -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. - -Make "notmuch setup" not index all messages, but only what it can do -in a reasonable amount of time, (then add "notmuch index" so the user -can complete the job when convenient). - -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.) - -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.) +Fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread. + +Implement "notmuch search --exclude-threads=" to allow +for excluding muted threads, (and any other negative, thread-based +filtering that the user wants to do). + +Fix "notmuch show" so that the UI doesn't fail to show a thread that +is visible in a search buffer, but happens to no longer match the +current search. (Perhaps add a --matching= +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 +dump" does, rather than doing N searches into the database, each +matching 1/N messages. + +Add a "-f " option to select an alternate configuration +file. + +Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when +indexing. notmuch library --------------- +Provide a sane syntax for date ranges. First, we don't want to require +both endpoints to be specified. For example it would be nice to be +able to say things like "since:2009-01-1" or "until:2009-01-1" and +have the other endpoint be implicit. Second we'd like to support +relative specifications of time such as "since:'2 months ago'". To do +any of this we're probably going to need to break down an write our +own parser for the query string rather than using Xapian's QueryParser +class. + +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 @@ -46,17 +141,54 @@ same message-ID values as sup). Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed. -Add support for automatic tagging of new messages based on particular -search criteria, (likely using an InMemory database for the new -messages). +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. + +Indicate to the user if two files with the same message ID have +content that is actually different in some interesting way. Perhaps +notmuch initially sees all changes as interesting, and quickly learns +from the user which changes are not interesting (such as the very +common mailing-list footer). + +Fix notmuch_query_count_messages to share code with +notmuch_query_search_messages rather than duplicating code. (And +consider renaming it as well.) + +Provide a mechanism for doing automatic address completion based on +notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC: + + I guess all it would really have to be would be a way + to configure a series of searches to try in turn, + (presenting ambiguities at a given single level, and + advancing to the next level only if one level + returned no matches). + So then I might have a series that looks like this: + notmuch search --output=address_from tag:address_book_alias + notmuch search --output=address_to tag:sent + notmuch search --output=address_from + I think I might like that quite a bit. + And then we have a story for an address book for + non-emacs users. + +Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email +addresses. + +Test suite +---------- +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)'" 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.