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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:36:07 +0300
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Vim client rewrite
From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: anton@khirnov.net
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:15 PM,  <anton@khirnov.net> wrote:
> my attempts to make the vim client more usable somehow spiraled out of
> control and turned into a huge rewrite. The intermediate results I
> hereby present for your amusement and comments.
> (attached as whole files, since the patch would be unreadable)
>
> The main point of the rewrite is splitting of a large part of the code
> into Python. This should have the following advantages:
> 1) python-notmuch bindings can be used, which should allow for cleaner
> =C2=A0 and more reliable code than running the binary and parsing its out=
put
> =C2=A0 with regexps.
> =C2=A0 (also provides a nice use case for python-notmuch)
> 2) Python's huge standard library makes implementing some features MUCH e=
asier.
> 3) More people know Python than vimscript, thus making the client
> =C2=A0 development easier
>
> The code is =CE=B1 quality, but should be close to usable.
> It already has some features not present in the mainline vim client,
> like attachments (viewing and sending, saving to file should be trivial
> to add, will be done when I have some time), better support for unicode
> and more.
>
> Some UI features from the mainline versions that I didn't use were
> removed and customization options are somewhat lacking atm. This is of
> course to be improved later, depending on the responses.
>
> Comments, bugreports and fixes very much welcome.

Do you have a git repo where to fetch these changes? Or can you
provide a series of patches with 'git format-patch'?

--=20
Felipe Contreras