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From: "Carl Worth" <cworth@cworth.org>
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To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:02:43 -0800
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Subject: [notmuch] New to the list
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In-Reply-To: <1258498485-sup-142@elly>
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References: <1258498485-sup-142@elly>
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Message-ID: <87bpj0qeng.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:57:18 +0100, Israel Herraiz <isra at herraiz.org> wrote:
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> I have subscribed to the list. As suggested by the welcome message, I
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> am introducing myself. My name is Israel Herraiz, and I have done a
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> couple of contributions to Sup, the probably well-known here e-mail
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> client.
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Welcome, Israel!
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I'm glad people read that little bit of text in the welcome email and
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are introducing themselves. I like to think of our new notmuch community
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as a very personable place.
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> "Not much" sounds interesting, and I wonder whether it could be
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> integrated with the views of Sup (inbox, threads, etc). So I have
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> subscribed to the list to keep an eye on what's going on here.
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>
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> I have just heard of "Not much". I have not even tried to download the
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> code yet.
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Yes, take a look. If you're already an emacs user, then you'll find the
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interface of notmuch very comfortable, (looks a lot like sup, but lives
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inside of emacs). Even outside of emacs, the command line interface of
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notmuch gives view *fairly* similar to those of sup:
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notmuch search tag:inbox # Very much like sup's inbox
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notmuch show thread:some-thread-id # A lot like sup's thread -view
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The command-line output right now isn't nearly as neat as sup's, (it
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doesn't elide comments--it doesn't do the indenting of threads, etc.),
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even though the command-line interface has all the information it needs
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to do that. The reason for that is to let the emacs code own most of the
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formatting, (so that it can be more flexible--such as making hidden
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things visible, changing column widths, etc.).
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But one thing I wonder is if there would be situations where it would
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make sense to get the cleaner output directly out of the command-line
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tool.
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For example, for someone who isn't an emacs user, the command-line
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interface might be their only introduction to what the "notmuch
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experience" is like. So maybe "notmuch show" should give nice clean
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output by default and then the emacs code could call "notmuch show
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--format=emacs-friendly" or something to get the current output.
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That's an idea anyway.
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-Carl
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