-Notmuch 0.10 (2011-xx-xx)
+Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
=========================
New build and testing features
------------------------------
-Emacs tests are now done in screen. This means that screen is now
+Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
-screen is improved.
+prerequisites is improved.
+
+Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
New command-line features
-------------------------
search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
favour of using stdout.
+Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
+
+ The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
+ the number of results shown.
+
+Add "notmuch count --output" option
+
+ The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
+ messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
+
+New emacs UI features
+---------------------
+
+Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
+
+ These functions now support completion tags for query parts
+ starting with "tag:".
+
+Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
+
+ Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
+ opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
+
+Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
+
+ Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
+
+Do not query on notmuch-search exit
+
+ It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
+ is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
+
+Performance
+-----------
+
+Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
+
+Search avoids opening and parsing message files
+
+ We now store more information in the database so search no longer
+ has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
+ improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
+ requires a database rebuild:
+
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+
+New collection of add-on tools
+------------------------------
+
+The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
+tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
+licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
+mailing list.
+
+nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
+
+ nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
+ prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
+ them to git in one location and restoring in another.
+
Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
========================
---------------------
- Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
- - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
+ - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
- Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
- Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
soon).
-Improved Build system portability
+Improved Build system portability
Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
* message tags are now explicitly unicode
* query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
-Build-System improvments
+Build-System improvements
------------------------
Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
----------------
Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
-
+
It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
people running gcc 4.4.5.
For example, one might use things such as:
folder:spam
- folder:2011-*
- folder:work/todo
+ folder:2011-*
+ folder:work/todo
to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
its parent, the subject is not shown.
-
+
Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
When a message contains a line looking something like:
Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
-* Python bindings have been upodated and extended
+* Python bindings have been updated and extended
(docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
New bindings:
- Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
These allow, for example:
- if msg1 == msg2: ...
+ if msg1 == msg2: ...
As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
- s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
+ s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
s1.union(s2)
s2 -= s1
Removed:
- - len(Messages()) as it exausted the iterator.
+ - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
Use len(list(Messages())) or
Query.count_messages() to get the length.
---- -----
'D' draft
'F' flagged
- 'P' passed
- 'R' replied
- 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
+ 'P' passed
+ 'R' replied
+ 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
tags from messages in a thread.
-