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This doesn't pull in any code, (everything in 0.3.x was originally cherry-picked from master anyway). But the merge does give us a correct NEWS file showing which fixes are included in 0.3.1 and which features have been commited "since" then, (topologically, not chronologically).
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New emacs features
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Add a new, optional hook for detecting inline patches
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This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
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under ""Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch
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customize interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and
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treated as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive
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highlighting).
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Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
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This feature adds a "replied" tag by default, but can easily be
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customized to add or remove other tags as well. For example, a user
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might use a tag of "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to
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automatically remove that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message
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Mark Replied" in the notmuch customize interface.
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Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
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==========================
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General bug fix
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---------------
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Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
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This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
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user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
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the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
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was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
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Emacs bug fixes
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---------------
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Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
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Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
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directory does not exist.
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Build fix
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Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
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Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
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final linking of notmuch would fail.
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Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
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========================
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New command-line features
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-------------------------
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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. This is helpful if you have
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several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe 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 subscribed address in the To:
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header).
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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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authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
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matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
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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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New: Python bindings
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--------------------
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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 search 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 straight 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 message 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 documentation 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 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/plain
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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 individually (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 hidden, 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 display 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 queries
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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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This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
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detailed release notes this time!
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This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
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notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
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We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
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release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
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better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
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notmuch in subsequent releases.
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-Carl
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General features
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Better guessing of From: header.
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Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
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used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
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Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
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or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
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replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
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configured address.
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Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
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Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
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guaranteed to match all messages.
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Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
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This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
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"notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
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shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
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support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
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search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
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other search terms.
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Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
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missing.
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Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
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parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
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not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
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so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
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General bug fixes
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Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
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One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
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SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
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the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
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Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
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Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
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Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
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Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
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silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
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of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
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Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
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Previously, the user might see:
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Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
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rather than:
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Subject: Re: Rozlučka
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The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
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be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
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recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
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unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
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Emacs client features
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Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
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It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
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being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
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important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
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citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
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notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
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The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
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tags by region.
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Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
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threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
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tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
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search with th '*' binding.
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More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
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Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
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name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
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number to the user.
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Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
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See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
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customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
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and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
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Build-system features
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Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
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Add support to configure for many standard options.
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We include actual support for:
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--includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
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And accept and silently ignore several more:
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--build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
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--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
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Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
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separate "make install-emacs".
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Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
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This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
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0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
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0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
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Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
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its results.
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Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
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========================
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This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
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It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
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interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
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Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
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1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
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a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
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tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
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notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
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tags from messages in a thread.
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