X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=da8f7c9ba02775f47846d29cbb6fbe67adac7fe3;hp=b85d33102f17e5d0fe536696acd62e325181121a;hb=71bdd859dc6f80a918412396cb66c219e0e60669;hpb=369b44103d5fb5db6c3915dc45de83588395c1b9 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index b85d3310..da8f7c9b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,11 +4,9 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users 2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them) -3. Allow an easy way to remove excess tags, (date-based search) +3. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below) -4. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below) - -5. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast. +4. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast. Emacs interface (notmuch.el) ---------------------------- @@ -107,8 +105,20 @@ 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.) +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 enpoint be implicit. Second we'de 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. + Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need to be handled differently). @@ -124,6 +134,11 @@ 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. +Think about optimizing chunked searches (max-threads > 0) to avoid +repeating work. That would be saving state from the previous chunk and +reusing it if the next search is the next chunk with the same search +string. + General ------- Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).