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NEWS: Add notes for the 0.3 release.
Summarizing all the major new features and fixes found in the git log since 0.2. A rather nice list, really.
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Even Better guessing of From: header.
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Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
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New command-line features
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User-configurable tags for new messages
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A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
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determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
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setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
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to specify this value.
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Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
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This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
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read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
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subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
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Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
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Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
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things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
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Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
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Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
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the best From: header to use in a reply. First it checks whether one
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of the user's emails is in To: or Cc:, then it checks Envelope-To:
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and X-Original-To: headers, then it analyses the Received headers
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checking for a Received: by .. from .. for user@add.res clause. And
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finally it matches domains in the received path.
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the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
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several configured email addreses, and you also subsribe to various
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mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
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replying to won't always include your subsribed address in the To:
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header).
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Visualization of author names that match a search
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Indication of author names that match a search
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When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
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lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
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a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
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messages in the thread are listed first.
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Provide 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh
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New: Python bindings
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Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
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library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
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known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
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accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
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The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
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python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
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searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
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and other tasks.
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These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
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are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
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package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
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Emacs interface improvements
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----------------------------
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An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
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Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
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by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
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bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
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recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
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a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
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searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
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(providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
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but without any of the disadvantages).
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Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
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exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
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search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
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away.
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Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
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immediately displaying a particular search result, we
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recommend instead running something like:
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emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
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The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
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(as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
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leave that off to have your seach results in "newest first"
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order.
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Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
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Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
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much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
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tweaked by the user.
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You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
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emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
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"Notmuch". Or you can go straignt to "M-x customize-group"
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"notmuch".
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Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
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options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
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selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
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settings.
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Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
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This support currently relies on an external program,
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(notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
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itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
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already been written that generate address completions by doing
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notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
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first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
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past, etc.
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One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
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notmuch) is available via:
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git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
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Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
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hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
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line of an email messsage will provide matching completions.
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Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
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This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
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set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
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screen, (see its docuementation there for details). We anticipate
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making this automatic in a future release.
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New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
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The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
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it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
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run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
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script to be called can be customized with. Use the customize screen
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to set the notmuch-poll-script variable to the program that you want
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to execute when pressing 'G'. Note that this is synchronous - emacs
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will wait until this program finishes.
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script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
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Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
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typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
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tag" commands.
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Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
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This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
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some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
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characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
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Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
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Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
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inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
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the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
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Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plan
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and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
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future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
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other representation.
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Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
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saved indivisdually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
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attachments).
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Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
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Many new functions are available for tidying up message
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content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
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compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
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Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
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clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
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Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
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New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
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When portions of overly-long citations are hiddent, the contents of
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these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
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"incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
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of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
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to display the search result.
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More flexible handling of header visibility
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As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
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headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
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that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
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Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
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visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
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with the 'h' keybinding.
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For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
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new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
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only those headers that should be present in the disply of a message.
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The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
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Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
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Customizable formatting of search results
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The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
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the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
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Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
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Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
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Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
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New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
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New library feature
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Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queriesl
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This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
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example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
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manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
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messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
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date.
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Build fixes
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Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
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Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
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though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
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Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
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For example, those that the gentoo build scripts expect configure to
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accept are now all accepted.
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Test suite
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A large number of new tests for the many new features.
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Better display of output from failed tests.
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Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
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complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
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Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
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