From: racin@free.fr
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: What's so great about notmuch?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:46:51 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <122533553.5814971267289211731.JavaMail.root@zimbra1-e1.priv.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrxz4v5a.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
> What's your favorite thing about notmuch?
The simple, functional emacs interface (rmail is too simple and Gnus too complex). Especially, I like the
idea that many commands create new bufferes, that get deleted with "q", so that access to buffers is
done like in a stack.
> What about notmuch makes it distinctive compared to other email
> programs?
The idea of not having to sort mails manually, but rather be able to find them later thanks to fast searching.
> If someone were to implement a new email system from scratch, but
> capturing the "ideas" of notmuch, what would it have to have?
I would encourage him to contribute to notmuch instead! I think notmuch only need some
minor improvement of the UI interface. Maybe interaction with org-mode/calendar would also be nice.
But if I were to reimplement notmuch, I would definitely have an emacs interface coupled with a command-line tool.
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 20:08 What's so great about notmuch? Carl Worth
2010-02-27 9:08 ` James Westby
2010-02-27 11:41 ` martin f krafft
2010-02-27 16:46 ` racin [this message]
2010-02-28 16:00 ` Arvid Picciani
2010-03-01 11:30 ` Michal Sojka
2010-03-01 13:39 ` Sebastian Spaeth
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