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36 Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:01:03 +0200
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37 From: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
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38 To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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42 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Vim client rewrite
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59 On Mon, 16 May 2011 14:36:07 +0300, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmai=
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61 > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:15 PM, <anton@khirnov.net> wrote:
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62 > > my attempts to make the vim client more usable somehow spiraled out of
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63 > > control and turned into a huge rewrite. The intermediate results I
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64 > > hereby present for your amusement and comments.
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65 > > (attached as whole files, since the patch would be unreadable)
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67 > > The main point of the rewrite is splitting of a large part of the code
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68 > > into Python. This should have the following advantages:
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69 > > 1) python-notmuch bindings can be used, which should allow for cleaner
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70 > > =C2=A0 and more reliable code than running the binary and parsing its o=
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72 > > =C2=A0 with regexps.
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73 > > =C2=A0 (also provides a nice use case for python-notmuch)
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74 > > 2) Python's huge standard library makes implementing some features MUCH=
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76 > > 3) More people know Python than vimscript, thus making the client
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77 > > =C2=A0 development easier
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79 > > The code is =CE=B1 quality, but should be close to usable.
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80 > > It already has some features not present in the mainline vim client,
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81 > > like attachments (viewing and sending, saving to file should be trivial
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82 > > to add, will be done when I have some time), better support for unicode
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85 > > Some UI features from the mainline versions that I didn't use were
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86 > > removed and customization options are somewhat lacking atm. This is of
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87 > > course to be improved later, depending on the responses.
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89 > > Comments, bugreports and fixes very much welcome.
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92 > Do you have a git repo where to fetch these changes? Or can you
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93 > provide a series of patches with 'git format-patch'?
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97 Ah right, forgot to mention it.
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98 git://git.khirnov.net/git/notmuch
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