1 Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
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3 1. A new import is tagging all messages as "inbox" -- total pain
5 2. Allow an easy way to get tags from directory names (if the user has them)
7 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
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9 Add notmuch-bcc and notmuch-cc for setting default Bcc and Cc values,
10 (should affect the message-setup-hook).
12 Switch the notmuch-search view to use "notmuch search --format=json"
13 to fix large classes of bugs regarding poorly-escaped output and lame
14 regular expressions. (The most recently found, unfixed example is the
15 sender's name containing ';' which causes emacs to drop a search
16 result.) This may require removing the outer array from the current
17 "notmuch search --format=json" results.
19 Fix '*' to work by simply calling '+' or '-' on a region consisting of
22 Add a global keybinding table for notmuch, and then view-specific
23 tables that add to it.
25 Add a '|' binding from the search view.
27 Add support for choosing from one of the user's configured email
28 addresses for the From line.
30 Make 'notmuch-show-pipe-message have a private history.
32 Add support for a delete keybinding that adds a "deleted" tag to the
33 current message/thread and make searches not return deleted messages
34 by default, (unless the user asks explicitly for deleted messags in
37 Add keybindings for next/previous thread.
39 Add support to "mute" a thread (add a "muted" tag and then don't
40 display threads in searches by default where any message of the thread
43 Make '=' count from the end rather than from the beginning if more
44 than half-way through the buffer.
46 Fix to automatically wrap long headers (for RFC compliance) before
47 sending. This should probably just be fixed in message-mode itself,
48 (but perhaps we can have a notmuch-message-mode that layers this on
51 Stop hiding the headers so much in the thread-view mode.
53 Allow opening a message in thread-view mode by clicking on either
56 Automatically open a message when navigating to it with N or P.
58 Change 'a' command in thread-view mode to only archive open messages.
60 Add a binding to open all closed messages.
62 Change the 'a'rchive command in the thread view to only archive open
67 Fix bash completion to complete multiple search options (both --first
68 and *then* --max-threads), and also complete value for --sort=
69 (oldest-first or newest-first).
71 notmuch command-line tool
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73 Add support to "notmuch search" and "notmuch show" to allow for
74 listing of duplicate messages, (distinct filenames with the same
75 Message-ID). I'm not sure what the option should be named. Perhaps
78 Add a -0 option to "notmuch search" so that one can safely deal with
81 notmuch search --output=files -0 <terms> | xargs -0 <command>
83 "notmuch setup" should use realpath() before replacing the
84 configuration file. The ensures that the final target file of any
85 intermediate symbolic links is what is actually replaced, (rather than
88 Replace "notmuch reply" with "notmuch compose --reply <search-terms>".
89 This would enable a plain "notmuch compose" to be used to construct an
90 initial message, (which would then have the properly configured name
91 and email address in the From: line. We could also then easily support
92 "notmuch compose --from <something>" to support getting at alternate
95 Fix the --format=json option to not imply --entire-thread.
97 Implement "notmuch search --exclude-threads=<search-terms>" to allow
98 for excluding muted threads, (and any other negative, thread-based
99 filtering that the user wants to do).
101 Fix "notmuch show" so that the UI doesn't fail to show a thread that
102 is visible in a search buffer, but happens to no longer match the
103 current search. (Perhaps add a --matching=<secondary-search-terms>
104 option (or similar) to "notmuch show".) For now, this is being worked
105 around in the emacs interface by noticing that "notmuch show" returns
106 nothing and re-rerunning the command without the extra arguments.
108 Add a "--format" option to "notmuch search", (something printf-like
109 for selecting what gets printed).
111 Give "notmuch restore" some progress indicator.
113 Fix "notmuch restore" to operate in a single pass much like "notmuch
114 dump" does, rather than doing N searches into the database, each
115 matching 1/N messages.
117 Add a "-f <filename>" option to select an alternate configuration
120 Allow configuration for filename patterns that should be ignored when
123 Replace the "notmuch part --part=id" command with "notmuch show
124 --part=id", (David Edmonson wants to rewrite some of "notmuch show" to
125 provide more MIME-structure information in its output first).
127 Replace the "notmuch search-tags" command with "notmuch search
130 Fix to avoid this ugly message:
132 (process:17197): gmime-CRITICAL **: g_mime_message_get_mime_part: assertion `GMIME_IS_MESSAGE (message)' failed
133 Warning: Not indexing empty mime part.
135 This probably means adding a test case to generate that message,
136 filing an upstream bug against GMime, and then silencing the
137 notmuch-generated portion of the warning (so that once GMime is
138 fixed, this is all silent).
140 Simplify notmuch-reply to simply print the headers (we have the
141 original values) rather than calling GMime (which encodes) and adding
142 the confusing gmime-filter-headers.c code (which decodes).
146 Add support for custom flag<->tag mappings. In the notmuch
147 configuration file this could be
150 synchronize_flags = R:replied; D*:deleted; S:~unread;
152 In the library interface this could be implemented with an array of
153 structures to define the mapping (flag character, tag name,
154 inverse-sense bit (~ above), and tag-when-any-file-flagged
155 vs. tag-when-all-files-flagged (* above)).
157 Add an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a
160 Provide a sane syntax for date ranges. First, we don't want to require
161 both endpoints to be specified. For example it would be nice to be
162 able to say things like "since:2009-01-1" or "until:2009-01-1" and
163 have the other endpoint be implicit. Second we'd like to support
164 relative specifications of time such as "since:'2 months ago'". To do
165 any of this we're probably going to need to break down an write our
166 own parser for the query string rather than using Xapian's QueryParser
169 Make failure to read a file (such as a permissions problem) a warning
170 rather than an error (should be similar to the existing warning for a
173 Fix to use the *last* Message-ID header if multiple such headers are
174 encountered, (I noticed this is one thing that kept me from seeing the
175 same message-ID values as sup).
177 Add support for configuring "virtual tags" which are a tuple of
178 (tag-name, search-specification). The database is responsible for
179 ensuring that the virtual tag is always consistent.
181 Indicate to the user if two files with the same message ID have
182 content that is actually different in some interesting way. Perhaps
183 notmuch initially sees all changes as interesting, and quickly learns
184 from the user which changes are not interesting (such as the very
185 common mailing-list footer).
187 Fix notmuch_query_count_messages to share code with
188 notmuch_query_search_messages rather than duplicating code. (And
189 consider renaming it as well.)
191 Provide a mechanism for doing automatic address completion based on
192 notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC:
194 <cworth> I guess all it would really have to be would be a way
195 to configure a series of searches to try in turn,
196 (presenting ambiguities at a given single level, and
197 advancing to the next level only if one level
198 returned no matches).
199 <cworth> So then I might have a series that looks like this:
200 <cworth> notmuch search --output=address_from tag:address_book_alias
201 <cworth> notmuch search --output=address_to tag:sent
202 <cworth> notmuch search --output=address_from
203 <cworth> I think I might like that quite a bit.
204 <cworth> And then we have a story for an address book for
207 Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email
210 Add symbol hiding so that we don't risk leaking any private symbols
211 into the shared-library interface.
213 Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are
214 wrapped in a try/catch block.
216 Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC:
218 ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the
219 database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact
223 Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags.
225 Fix "notmuch search to:" to be less confusing. Many users expect this
226 to search for all messages with a To: header, but it instead searches
227 for all messages with the word "to". If we don't provide the first
228 behavior, perhaps we should exit on an error when a configured prefix
229 is provided with no value?
231 Support "*" in all cases and not just as a special case. That is, "* "
232 should also work, as well as "* and tag:inbox".
234 Implement a syntax for requesting set-theoertic operations on results
235 of multiple searches. For example, I would like to do:
237 "tag:inbox" SET-SUBTRACT "tag:muted"
241 "tag:notmuch and <date-range>" SET-INTERSECT
242 "tag:notmuch and not (tag:merged or tag:postponed)"
244 See id:3wdpr282yz2.fsf@testarossa.amd.com for more details on the
245 use cases of the above.
249 Store a reference term for every message-id that appears in
250 References. We just started doing this for newly-added documents, but
251 at the next convenient database-schema upgrade, we should go back and
252 fix old messages to be consistent.
254 Start indexing the List-Id header, (and re-index this header for
255 existing messages at the next database upgrade).
257 Start indexing the message file's directory and make it available for
258 search as "folder:" (and re-index this value for existing messages at
259 the next database upgrade).
261 Add support for the user to specify custom headers to be indexed (and
262 re-index these for existing messages at the next database upgrade).
266 Achieve 100% test coverage with the test suite.
270 Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
272 Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup
273 database for the same corpus of email.
275 Makefile should print message teaching user about LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or
276 similar) if libdir is not set to a directory examined by ldconfig.