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38 <CANcQd8POazwALwAodK=hnaD7OyxhJD_awJ+J-f0+Ek8_0yNEMA@mail.gmail.com>
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39 Subject: [alot] Introducing myself, asking various questions
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40 From: Krzysztof Ilowiecki <k@ilowiecki.com>
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60 summary: I'm new, would like to help, have lots of ideas, some time
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63 The list welcome message invites to introducing myself, so I shall
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64 comply, even if this appears to be some configuration relic ;)
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65 I'm using the [alot] tag as it looks to be what I'm most likely to
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68 I'm sysadmin/programmer and a physics student. I've been writing
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69 anything significant in Python for only a year now, but have
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70 previous experience with C. I prefer to contribute in Python, though.
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71 I've been a vim user for nearly eight years, though only recently did I
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72 start using things like macros or global commands and writing functions.
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74 My experience of email is that I hated it until I started using Gmail
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75 in 2004. Since then I merely dislike it :) Or rather, I dislike the
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78 notmuch has made a very good impression on me and I would like to
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79 migrate to it away from gmail. I happen to have some time
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82 I understand it is quite hard to provide an overview for newcomers of
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83 the state of a rapidly developing project. Please correct me if the
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84 following assertions are wrong:
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85 * emacs frontend is the most mature, enough for quite some people
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86 to use it as their primary MUA
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87 * alot is second, but is rather ambitious and very far from '1.0'
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88 * I could use it without a need to fall back to the emacs one
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89 * vim frontend is interesting, quite a bit less complete, and stalled
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90 * curses-notmuch is dead
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92 I would like to try and help writing a python terminal vim-friendly
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93 client. Alot seems like by far the bast candidate, however I have the
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94 impression that it may be trying to do too much for my needs, which may
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95 be peculiar. I have installed offlineimap+notmuch+alot on a slow laptop
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96 running Debian wheezy. It is looking good with a testing account and I'm
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97 considering connecting it to live accounts. How likely is it to mess
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100 I understand synchronisation across machines and with IMAP is something
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101 of an issue so far. How bad would it be to use git for that - and for
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102 'undo'? It would appear some people use git+maildir even instead of
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103 IMAP, but I guess the notmuch's database may be completely unsuitable...
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105 Does alot have some sort of the design documentation, sketched vision it
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106 is heading towards? I think I should write down my ideas before I get
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107 too entangled in the implementation details, it would be good to
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108 know if something like this is already available.
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110 Kris I=C5=82owiecki
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