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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: more considerations in UI/UX...
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some rambling, haven't been able to sleep well all year :<

* latency - startup time hurts, especially in Perl.
  There's also DB opens and disk seeks regardless of
  language.  libgit2 has some built-in caching so a
  persistent daemon may help, here.

* shortcuts/names; for two handed-users on QWERTY, 'lei'
  can be typed with alternate hands with 'l' as a home key
  and the 'e' and 'i' being close to home keys.

  'query' is hard-to-type and will have 'q' as a builtin alias
  (matching the 'q=' query parameter of our WWW UI),
  'show' may have 's', matching /$INBOX/$OID/s/ (solver) URLs

  ... or, can 'q' and 's' be the command w/o long form.
  Neither 'show' nor 'query' are search-engine friendly,
  so "lei q" and "lei s" may be better.

* consistency/familiarity - steal ideas from other software
  built-in help, auto-pager/color,
  `q=' is stolen from web search engines,
  search term prefixes (f:, t:, ...) stolen from mairix

  Stuff I don't know but know other users use: Emacs / Gnus

  notmuch - I've only read the code since Maildir can't scale