From: racin@free.fr
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: First attempt to add smart completion in notmuch-search
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:00:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261148449.4b2b9921f3ab1@imp.free.fr> (raw)
Hi!
Here is a first attempt to add "smart completion" to notmuch-search.
What it does is that:
- It tries to detects when you hit tab to complete a search term
prefix (like to, from, subject...) , and if so completes your
prefix;
- If you try to complete a search term usign a specific prefix (like
to), it helps you complete it using prefix founds in the messages
matching the current search string.
The patch has a Emacs-lisp part and a C part.
I'm submitting the patch to know what people think of it, but there
are some things still uncomplete:
- I think headers should be parsed so that a better output is
proposed, but I don't know which one yet;
- There may be performance issues (because fetching headers require
looking them in each message file), but I'm not sure if this is
really a problem (since we already fetch headers to display it in
the summary buffer).
- I have a problem that notmuch-search-query-string is buffer-local
and I can't access it from the minibuffer, which I don't know how
to solve properly
- There are still some glitches with the "".
- There may be many other improvements that I haven't thought of.
Anyway, I hope it's useful; I'll continue working on it when I come
back from Holidays.
Thanks for your input,
Matthieu
next reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 15:00 racin [this message]
2009-12-18 17:54 ` First attempt to add smart completion in notmuch-search Carl Worth
2009-12-24 10:06 ` racin
2009-12-24 10:07 ` racin
2009-12-26 16:19 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2009-12-27 18:37 ` racin
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