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45 Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:36:07 +0300
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46 Message-ID: <BANLkTimbNm-Vb55YYPQu6jFLhKVDtDsaaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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47 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Vim client rewrite
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48 From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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67 On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:15 PM, <anton@khirnov.net> wrote:
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68 > my attempts to make the vim client more usable somehow spiraled out of
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69 > control and turned into a huge rewrite. The intermediate results I
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70 > hereby present for your amusement and comments.
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71 > (attached as whole files, since the patch would be unreadable)
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73 > The main point of the rewrite is splitting of a large part of the code
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74 > into Python. This should have the following advantages:
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75 > 1) python-notmuch bindings can be used, which should allow for cleaner
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76 > =C2=A0 and more reliable code than running the binary and parsing its out=
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78 > =C2=A0 with regexps.
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79 > =C2=A0 (also provides a nice use case for python-notmuch)
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80 > 2) Python's huge standard library makes implementing some features MUCH e=
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82 > 3) More people know Python than vimscript, thus making the client
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83 > =C2=A0 development easier
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85 > The code is =CE=B1 quality, but should be close to usable.
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86 > It already has some features not present in the mainline vim client,
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87 > like attachments (viewing and sending, saving to file should be trivial
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88 > to add, will be done when I have some time), better support for unicode
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91 > Some UI features from the mainline versions that I didn't use were
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92 > removed and customization options are somewhat lacking atm. This is of
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93 > course to be improved later, depending on the responses.
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95 > Comments, bugreports and fixes very much welcome.
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97 Do you have a git repo where to fetch these changes? Or can you
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98 provide a series of patches with 'git format-patch'?
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