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14 From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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15 To: Israel Herraiz <isra@herraiz.org>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
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18 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:02:43 -0800
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22 Subject: Re: [notmuch] New to the list
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37 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:57:18 +0100, Israel Herraiz <isra@herraiz.org> wrote:
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38 > I have subscribed to the list. As suggested by the welcome message, I
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39 > am introducing myself. My name is Israel Herraiz, and I have done a
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40 > couple of contributions to Sup, the probably well-known here e-mail
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45 I'm glad people read that little bit of text in the welcome email and
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46 are introducing themselves. I like to think of our new notmuch community
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47 as a very personable place.
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49 > "Not much" sounds interesting, and I wonder whether it could be
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50 > integrated with the views of Sup (inbox, threads, etc). So I have
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51 > subscribed to the list to keep an eye on what's going on here.
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53 > I have just heard of "Not much". I have not even tried to download the
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56 Yes, take a look. If you're already an emacs user, then you'll find the
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57 interface of notmuch very comfortable, (looks a lot like sup, but lives
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58 inside of emacs). Even outside of emacs, the command line interface of
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59 notmuch gives view *fairly* similar to those of sup:
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61 notmuch search tag:inbox # Very much like sup's inbox
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63 notmuch show thread:some-thread-id # A lot like sup's thread -view
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65 The command-line output right now isn't nearly as neat as sup's, (it
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66 doesn't elide comments--it doesn't do the indenting of threads, etc.),
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67 even though the command-line interface has all the information it needs
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68 to do that. The reason for that is to let the emacs code own most of the
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69 formatting, (so that it can be more flexible--such as making hidden
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70 things visible, changing column widths, etc.).
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72 But one thing I wonder is if there would be situations where it would
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73 make sense to get the cleaner output directly out of the command-line
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76 For example, for someone who isn't an emacs user, the command-line
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77 interface might be their only introduction to what the "notmuch
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78 experience" is like. So maybe "notmuch show" should give nice clean
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79 output by default and then the emacs code could call "notmuch show
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80 --format=emacs-friendly" or something to get the current output.
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82 That's an idea anyway.
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