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I had these notes sitting in an uncommitted file that was cluttering up my "git status" output. This cleans that up, and also shares the ideas with the wider community.
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Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
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1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain
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2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them)
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3. Allow an easy way to remove excess tags, (date-based search)
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4. Make emacs fast for big search results (see "lazy searching" below)
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5. Fix Xapian defect #250 so tagging is fast.
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Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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Make the keybindings help ('?') display the summary of each command's
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documentation, not the function name.
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Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific
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tables that add to it.
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Add a command to archive all threads in a search view.
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Lazy searching: call "notmuch search" with --first and --max to fill
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just a screenful of results, and then fill in more as ther user pages
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through the buffer.
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Add a '|' binding from the search view.
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Add a binding to run a search from notmuch-show-mode.
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When a thread has been entirely read, start out by closing all
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messages except those that matched the search terms.
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Add support for choosing from one of the user's configured email
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addresses for the From line.
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Make 'notmuch-show-pipe-message have a private history.
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Add support for a delete keybinding that adds a "deleted" tag to the
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current message/thread and make searches not return deleted messages
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by default, (unless the user asks explicitly for deleted messags in
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the search query).
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Add support to "mute" a thread (add a "muted" tag and then don't
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display threads in searches by default where any message of the thread
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has the "muted" tag).
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Portability
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Fix configure script to test each compiler warning we want to use.
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Implement strndup locally (or call talloc_strndup instead).
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Implement getline locally, (look at gnulib).
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Completion
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Fix bash completion to complete multiple search options (both --first
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and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort=
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(oldest-first or newest-first).
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notmuch command-line tool
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Teach "notmuch search" to return many different kinds of results. Some
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ideas:
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notmuch search --for threads # Default if no --for is given
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notmuch search --for messages
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notmuch search --for tags
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notmuch search --for addresses
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notmuch search --for terms
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Add a "--format" option to "notmuch search", (something printf-like
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for selecting what gets printed).
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Add a "--count-only" (or so?) option to "notmuch search" for returning
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the count of search results.
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Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator. Until we get the
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Xapian bugs fixed that are making this operation slow, we really need
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to let the user know that things are still moving.
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Add a "-f <filename>" option to select an alternate configuration
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file.
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Fix notmuch.c to call add_timestamp/get_timestamp with path names
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relative to the database path. (Otherwise, moving the database to a
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new directory will result in notmuch creating new timestamp documents
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and leaving stale ones behind.)
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Ensure that "notmuch new" is sane if its first, giant indexing session
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gets interrupted, (that is, ensure that any results indexed so far are
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flushed).
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Fix notmuch.c to use a DIR prefix for directory timestamps, (the idea
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being that it can then add other non-directory timestamps such as for
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noting how far back in the past mail has been indexed, and whether it
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needs to re-tag messages based on a theoretical "auto-tags"
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configuration file).
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Make "notmuch new" notice when a mail directory has gone more than a
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month without receiving new mail and use that to trigger the printing
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of the note that the user might want to mark the directory read-only.
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Also make "notmuch new" optionally able to just mark those month-old
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directories read-only on its own. (Could conflict with low-volume
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lists such as announce lists if they are setup to deliver to their own
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maildirs.)
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notmuch library
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Add support for files that are moved or deleted (which obviously need
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to be handled differently).
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Actually compile and install a libnotmuch shared library.
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Fix to use the *last* Message-ID header if multiple such headers are
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encountered, (I noticed this is one thing that kept me from seeing the
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same message-ID values as sup).
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Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed.
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Add support for configuring "virtual tags" which are a tuple of
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(tag-name, search-specification). The database is responsible for
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ensuring that the virtual tag is always consistent.
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General
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Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
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Write a test suite.
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Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite.
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Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup
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database for the same corpus of email.
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Xapian
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Fix defect #250
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replace_document should make minimal changes to database file
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http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/250
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It looks like it's going to be easy to fix. Here's the file to
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change:
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xapian-core/backends/flint/flint_database.cc
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And look for:
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// FIXME - in the case where there is overlap between the new
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// termlist and the old termlist, it would be better to compare the
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// two lists, and make the minimum set of modifications required.
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// This would lead to smaller changesets for replication, and
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// probably be faster overall
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So I think this might be as easy as just walking over two
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sorted lists looking for differences.
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Note that this is in the currently default "flint" backend,
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but the Xapian folks are probably more interested in fixing
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the in-development "chert" backend. So the patch to get
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upstreamed there will probably also fix:
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xapian-core/backends/chert/chert_database.cc
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(I'm hoping the fix will be the same---an identical comment
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exists there.)
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Also, if you want to experiment with the chert backend,
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compile current Xapian source and run notmuch with
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XAPIAN_PREFER_CHERT=1. I haven't tried that yet, but there are
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claims that a chert database can be 40% smaller than an
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equivalent flint database.
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Report this bug:
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"tag:foo and tag:bar and -tag:deleted" goes insane
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This seems to be triggered by a Boolean operator next to a
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token starting with a non-word character---suddenly all the
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Boolean operators get treated as literal tokens)
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