On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:32:48 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> On irc recently dme posted a patch notmuch-pick.el which provided a
> threaded message view in the emacs interface. I have added substantially
> to it and made some cli changes to support it better. See
> http://kanelephant.com/screen.png for a screenshot.
> 
> It seems to be working well (although doubtless has bugs and lots of
> room for improvement).
> 
> One important caveat is that it does call notmuch-show rather than
> notmuch-search so it can be slow. Viewing 10000 notmuch messages takes
> me 20 seconds with a warm cache and about a minute with a cold
> cache. Viewing million message searches in this fashion is not
> recommended! 

Hey, Mark.  I really like the idea, since I've been looking for
something like this for a while, but there's something I'm confused
about.  Is this meant to replace notmuch-search, or notmuch-show?  I had
been hoping for a notmuch *show* replacement that shows the nice tree
view for the thread, with a single message view below.  But it sounds
like you're meant to be replacing notmuch search?  That seems confusing
to me, particularly in light of the big performance hit you describe.

I'll wait for some further explanation before I jump into a full review.

jamie.