Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C891431FB6 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:16:09 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FY8eN-EQqq3U for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5DF4431FAF for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034089108.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.89.108] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TaQGf-0003R6-M7; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:16:02 -0400 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TaQGa-000481-4b; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:15:56 -0400 From: David Bremner To: Jameson Graef Rollins , Peter Wang , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] cli: add stub for insert command In-Reply-To: <871ujz6a19.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> References: <1343223767-9812-1-git-send-email-novalazy@gmail.com> <871ujz6a19.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+75~g984212d (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:15:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87fw457pqb.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:16:09 -0000 Jameson Graef Rollins writes: > > This is an interesting series, but let me play devil's advocate for a > moment: Why is this functionality needed? What can this functionality > do that notmuch new can't? Or how is it better? I feel like everything > that this series does can be done with notmuch new, post-new hooks, and > folder searches. Does this makes things more efficient in some way? > One thing that Austin mentioned is that (roughly speaking) notmuch-new has no good way of dealing with duplicate message id's, so that might be another reason to integrate this functionality. d