NEWS for version 0.24

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+Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
+=========================
+
+General
+-------
+
+### Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
+
+This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
+details.
+
+Command Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+### Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
+
+You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
+have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
+`notmuch(1)` man page for details
+
+Emacs
+-----
+
+### Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
+
+Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
+messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
+to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
+or tree view to resume.
+
+Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
+default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
+saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
+tagged deleted.
+
+Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
+they were when you postponed in the final message.
+
+### Address Completion
+
+It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
+notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
+first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
+privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
+customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
+
+### Tag jump menu
+
+It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
+like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
+unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
+tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
+k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
+variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
+
+### Refresh all buffers
+
+It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
+current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
+
+### Stop display of application/* parts
+
+By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
+application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
+effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
+overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
+customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
+you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
+application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
+to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
+"non/existent".
+
+### Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
+
+When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
+is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
+only tagged the current thread.)
+
+### Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
+
+Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
+could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
+it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
+
+### `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
+
+We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
+quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
+interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
+with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
+interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
+transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
+`notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
+
+### Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
+
+The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
+Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
+allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
+
+Library changes
+---------------
+
+### `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
+
+Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
+possible.
+
+### Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
+
+Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
+handled.