notmuch emacs interface

notmuch emacs interface

[Paul R]

Hello,

following the activity on this list, I've seen a recent effort toward
improving the behaviour of the Emacs frontend to notmuch, which is
a really nice thing.

I also read the main emacs development mailing list, as well as the Gnus
ML, and I haven't seen any mention of NotMuch there, or maybe just once
on the later.

I'm pretty sure most emacs hackers want notmuch thought, because it
brings a fresh, clean, responsive, reliable and efficient way of dealing
with mails from emacs. In my experience, there is no prior art in this
area (unfortunately). You could probably easily attract a handful of
core emacs developers to notmuch, therefore benefit from their amazing
emacs-fu to improve the frontend.

Do you have a plan for that ? I think announcing it on emacs devel
mailing list would be ok, even if it is slightly off topic.



-- 
  Paul

Re: notmuch emacs interface

[Carl Worth]

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:07:18 +0200, Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> following the activity on this list, I've seen a recent effort toward
> improving the behaviour of the Emacs frontend to notmuch, which is
> a really nice thing.

Thanks so much.

> I also read the main emacs development mailing list, as well as the Gnus
> ML, and I haven't seen any mention of NotMuch there, or maybe just once
> on the later.

Right. Someone at one point did at least float the idea of notmuch to
users of "org mode". I'm not sure exactly which list that was on.

> I'm pretty sure most emacs hackers want notmuch thought, because it
> brings a fresh, clean, responsive, reliable and efficient way of dealing
> with mails from emacs. In my experience, there is no prior art in this
> area (unfortunately). You could probably easily attract a handful of
> core emacs developers to notmuch, therefore benefit from their amazing
> emacs-fu to improve the frontend.
> 
> Do you have a plan for that ? I think announcing it on emacs devel
> mailing list would be ok, even if it is slightly off topic.

I didn't have any specific plans. I think things like this are generally
great if done by people already reading those lists. Would you like to
send a note including something very much like the paragraph above along
with "Hey, I thought some poeple here might be interested in the recent
development of notmuch. ... See the notmuch@notmuchmail.org list for
more."?

Thanks for the idea,

-Carl

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Re: notmuch emacs interface

[Paul R]

Carl> I didn't have any specific plans. I think things like this are
Carl> generally great if done by people already reading those lists.
Carl> Would you like to send a note including something very much like
Carl> the paragraph above along with "Hey, I thought some poeple here
Carl> might be interested in the recent development of notmuch. ... See
Carl> the notmuch-gxuj+Tv9EO5zyzON3hdc1g@public.gmane.org list for
Carl> more."?

Sure I can do so. Let's wait for the event of a release. Given your
roadmap, are you ok with an announce for NotMuch 0.4 ?

-- 
  Paul