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+From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+Subject: Re: Replacing my name/email with "me" (or similar) in author lists\r
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+On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:36:57 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+> What if the output of search (say, specifically the JSON format)\r
+> included information on each message in the thread such as the\r
+> 'message' production from devel/schemata minus the body field? Then\r
+> the frontend would have loads of information it could produce its own\r
+> summaries from. (Plus, with a little tweaking, I don't think this\r
+> would be any more expensive than producing the current notmuch search\r
+> summary output.)\r
+\r
+I was hoping for something like that when I started fiddling. But it's\r
+still going to end up being a library question, because\r
+notmuch-search.c, is tied pretty tightly to the lib: i.e. it uses\r
+functions like `notmuch_thread_get_authors (thread)'. I was using the\r
+python bindings, and I ended up having to make a second query off the\r
+thread id (I could have recursed through the messages too, I suppose).\r
+\r
+So I guess what I'm saying is that what you're suggesting sounds great,\r
+but we'd still have to either (a) add new library functions\r
+(`notmuch_thread_get_recipients', `notmuch_thread_abbrev_me'), (b) keep\r
+them all in the client and make pazz and scripters recreate them, or (c)\r
+play around in the sort of client-library space that it sounded like\r
+Bremner was suggesting.\r
+\r
+Best,\r
+Jesse\r
+\r