+[[!meta date="2010-11-01"]]
+
Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
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+
New command-line features
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-notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
+
+### `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
<operations-on> "$file"
done
-notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
+### `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
This new option allows for the messages matching a search
specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
followed by the 5 characters "From ".
-notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
+### `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
custom items stored in the configuration file.
-Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
+### Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
New library features
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-Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
+
+### Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
These are simply functions for querying properties of a
- notmuch_query_t object.
+ `notmuch_query_t` object.
New emacs features
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-Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
+
+### Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
notmuch customize interface.
-Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
+### Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
-Optional support for detecting inline patches
+### Optional support for detecting inline patches
This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
-Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
+### Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
"replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
notmuch customize interface.
-Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
+### Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
notmuch customize interface.
-Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
+### Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
names.
-New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
+### New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
New build-system features
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-Various portability fixes have been applied
+
+### Various portability fixes have been applied
These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
more portable than ever before.
-Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
+### Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
- variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+ variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
-Check compiler/linker options before using them
+### Check compiler/linker options before using them
The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
New test-suite features
-----------------------
-New modularization of test suite.
+
+### New modularization of test suite
Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
-New testing of emacs interface.
+### New testing of emacs interface
The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
General bug fixes
-----------------
-Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
+
+### Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted
Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
-Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
+### Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
-Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
+### Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
parsing the notmuch results).
-Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
+### Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
-Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
+### Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads` fails
Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
-Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
+
+### Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
the emacs interface.
-Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
+### Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
Python-binding fixes
--------------------
+
The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
Debian-specific fixes
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-Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
+
+### Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
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