### `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
- just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
+This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
+notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
+just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
- The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
- tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
- expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
- scripts. For example:
+The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
+tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
+expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
+scripts. For example:
for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
<operations-on> "$file"
### `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"
- format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
- beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
- beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
- followed by the 5 characters "From ".
+This new option allows for the messages matching a search
+specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
+format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
+beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
+beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
+followed by the 5 characters "From ".
### `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.
+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"
- We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
- user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
- see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
- default rather than Bcc.
+We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
+user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
+see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
+default rather than Bcc.
New library features
--------------------
### Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
- These are simply functions for querying properties of a
- `notmuch_query_t` object.
+These are simply functions for querying properties of a
+`notmuch_query_t` object.
New emacs features
------------------
### 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
- by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
- "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
- can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
- notmuch customize interface.
+All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
+notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
+by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
+"sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
+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
- 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.
+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
- 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).
+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
- Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
- "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
- other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
- "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
- that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
- notmuch customize interface.
+Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
+"replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
+other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
+"needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
+that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
+notmuch customize interface.
### 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,
- both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
- case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
- notmuch customize interface.
+For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
+lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
+both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
+case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
+notmuch customize interface.
### 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
- available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
- searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
- names.
+When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
+in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
+available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
+searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
+names.
### 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,
- etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
- opposite direction.
+Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
+various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
+etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
+opposite direction.
New build-system features
-------------------------
### 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.
+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
- The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
- errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
- after installing. This support takes two forms:
+The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
+errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
+after installing. This support takes two forms:
1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
(configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
- 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`.
+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`.
### 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
- embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
- used in the resulting Makefile.
+The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
+compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
+embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
+used in the resulting Makefile.
New test-suite features
-----------------------
### 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
- provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
- rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
- test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
- (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
- it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
- notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
+Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
+from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
+provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
+rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
+test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
+(BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
+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
- The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
- emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
- threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
- message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
- and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
- database via the FCC setting.
+The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
+emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
+threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
+message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
+and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
+database via the FCC setting.
General bug fixes
-----------------
### 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
- persistent error of the form:
+Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
+in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
+persistent error of the form:
document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
- The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
- avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
+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
- 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.
+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"
- 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).
+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 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
- returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
+Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
+exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
+returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
### 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
- output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
- mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
- the emacs interface.
+Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
+square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
+output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
+mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
+the emacs interface.
### 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
- misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
+The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
+Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
+misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
Python-binding fixes
--------------------
### 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
- edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
- work.
+Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
+"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
+edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
+work.
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