Re: Replacing my name/email with "me" (or similar) in author lists

[Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:36:57 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> What if the output of search (say, specifically the JSON format)
> included information on each message in the thread such as the
> 'message' production from devel/schemata minus the body field?  Then
> the frontend would have loads of information it could produce its own
> summaries from.  (Plus, with a little tweaking, I don't think this
> would be any more expensive than producing the current notmuch search
> summary output.)

I was hoping for something like that when I started fiddling. But it's
still going to end up being a library question, because
notmuch-search.c, is tied pretty tightly to the lib: i.e. it uses
functions like `notmuch_thread_get_authors (thread)'. I was using the
python bindings, and I ended up having to make a second query off the
thread id (I could have recursed through the messages too, I suppose).

So I guess what I'm saying is that what you're suggesting sounds great,
but we'd still have to either (a) add new library functions
(`notmuch_thread_get_recipients', `notmuch_thread_abbrev_me'), (b) keep
them all in the client and make pazz and scripters recreate them, or (c)
play around in the sort of client-library space that it sounded like
Bremner was suggesting.

Best,
Jesse