To: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:19:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] JSON based emacs UI
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:41:32 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:
> It works really nice and I get the (unmeasured) feeling that it is
> faster too (but then it might just be the lack of my additional patches
> which slow things down :-)).

I'm not sure why it would be faster. If you have a long thread that
includes many text/html parts it is clearly slower.

> I have one question (which is more build related): now, I have to pull
> your branch and an make install-emacs will also always compile and
> install the notmuch binary from your branch, but I might want to keep my
> own notmuch binary. Is it possible to just use the notmuch frontend from
> your branch, but not having to install the binary? Is there such a make
> target, or any other way? Should we create a repo that just contains the
> frontend and not notmuch itself, so people can mix and match more
> easily? (not sure what the right answer is here).

As Michal says, you need the 'part' subcommand support. If you have a
patch to the Makefile to help achieve what you want I'd be happy to look
at it.

dme.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org