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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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Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
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if set.
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Fix '*' to work by simply calling '+' or '-' on a region consisting of
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the entire buffer.
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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 '|' binding from the search view.
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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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Fix i-search to open up invisible citations as necessary.
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Emacs saved-search interface
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Here's a proposal Carl wrote (id:87einafy4u.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org):
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So what I'm imagining for the default notmuch view is something like
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this:
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Welcome to notmuch.
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Notmuch search: _________________________________________
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Saved searches:
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55,342 All messages
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22 Inbox
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Recent searches:
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1 from:"someone special" and tag:unread
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34 tag:notmuch and tag:todo
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Click (or press Enter) on any search to see the results.
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Right-click (or press Space) on any recent search to save it.
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So the "saved searches" portion of the view is basically just what
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notmuch-folder displays now. Above that there's an obvious place to
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start a new search, (in a slightly more "web-browser-like" way than the
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typical mini-buffer approach).
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All recent searches appear in the list at the bottom automatically, and
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there's the documented mechanism for saving a search, (giving it a name
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and having it appear above).
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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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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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Fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread.
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Implement "notmuch search --exclude-threads=<search-terms>" to allow
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for excluding muted threads, (and any other negative, thread-based
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filtering that the user wants to do).
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Fix "notmuch show" so that the UI doesn't fail to show a thread that
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is visible in a search buffer, but happens to no longer match the
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current search. (Perhaps add a --matching=<secondary-search-terms>
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option (or similar) to "notmuch show".) For now, this is being worked
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around in the emacs interface by noticing that "notmuch show" returns
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nothing and re-rerunning the command without the extra arguments.
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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 --output=threads # Default if no --output is given
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notmuch search --output=messages
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notmuch search --output=tags
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notmuch search --output=addresses
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notmuch search --output=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.
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Fix "notmuch restore" to operate in a single pass much like "notmuch
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dump" does, rather than doing N searches into the database, each
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matching 1/N messages.
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Add a "-f <filename>" option to select an alternate configuration
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file.
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Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when
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indexing.
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notmuch library
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Provide a sane syntax for date ranges. First, we don't want to require
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both endpoints to be specified. For example it would be nice to be
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able to say things like "since:2009-01-1" or "until:2009-01-1" and
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have the other endpoint be implicit. Second we'd like to support
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relative specifications of time such as "since:'2 months ago'". To do
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any of this we're probably going to need to break down an write our
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own parser for the query string rather than using Xapian's QueryParser
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class.
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Make failure to read a file (such as a permissions problem) a warning
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rather than an error (should be similar to the existing warning for a
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non-mail file).
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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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Indicate to the user if two files with the same message ID have
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content that is actually different in some interesting way. Perhaps
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notmuch initially sees all changes as interesting, and quickly learns
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from the user which changes are not interesting (such as the very
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common mailing-list footer).
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Fix notmuch_query_count_messages to share code with
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notmuch_query_search_messages rather than duplicating code. (And
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consider renaming it as well.)
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Provide a mechanism for doing automatic address completion based on
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notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC:
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<cworth> I guess all it would really have to be would be a way
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to configure a series of searches to try in turn,
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(presenting ambiguities at a given single level, and
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advancing to the next level only if one level
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returned no matches).
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<cworth> So then I might have a series that looks like this:
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<cworth> notmuch search --output=address_from tag:address_book_alias
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<cworth> notmuch search --output=address_to tag:sent
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<cworth> notmuch search --output=address_from
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<cworth> I think I might like that quite a bit.
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<cworth> And then we have a story for an address book for
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non-emacs users.
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Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email
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addresses.
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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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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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