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Message-ID: <20110516140103.6304.29501@zohar.khirnov.net>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:01:03 +0200
From: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
References: <20110515191531.25709.21869@zohar.khirnov.net>
	<BANLkTimbNm-Vb55YYPQu6jFLhKVDtDsaaQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimbNm-Vb55YYPQu6jFLhKVDtDsaaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Vim client rewrite
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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On Mon, 16 May 2011 14:36:07 +0300, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmai=
l.com> wrote:
> 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 o=
utput
> > =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=
 easier.
> > 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'?
> =


Ah right, forgot to mention it.
git://git.khirnov.net/git/notmuch
branch vim.

--
Anton Khirnov