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) ---------------------------- 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. Make '=' count from the end rather than from the beginning if more than half-way through the buffer. Fix to automatically wrap long headers (for RFC compliance) before 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. Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode. Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either line. Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P. Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages. Add a binding to open all closed messages. Make all authors and subjects available to isearch, (hidden by default but with magic expansion while isearching). 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). 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. 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 ------------------------- 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. Replace the "notmuch part --part=id" command with "notmuch show --part=id", (David Edmonson wants to rewrite some of "notmuch show" to provide more MIME-structure information in its output first). Replace the "notmuch search-tags" command with "notmuch search --output=tags". Fix to avoid this ugly message: (process:17197): gmime-CRITICAL **: g_mime_message_get_mime_part: assertion `GMIME_IS_MESSAGE (message)' failed Warning: Not indexing empty mime part. This probably means adding a test case to generate that message, filing an upstream bug against GMime, and then silencing the notmuch-generated portion of the warning (so that once GMime is fixed, this is all silent). Simplify notmuch-reply to simply print the headers (we have the original values) rather than calling GMime (which encodes) and adding the confusing gmime-filter-headers.c code (which decodes). notmuch library --------------- Add an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a filename. 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 encountered, (I noticed this is one thing that kept me from seeing the same message-ID values as sup). 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. 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. 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 References. We just started doing this for newly-added documents, but at the next convenient database-schema upgrade, we should go back and 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 search as "folder:" (and re-index this value for existing messages at the next database upgrade). Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed (and 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.