* configurable summary line for notmuch search
@ 2021-08-28 15:10 David Bremner
2021-08-28 21:30 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Bremner @ 2021-08-28 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: notmuch
I was idly thinking about how to provide custom summary formats for
notmuch-search. I know this has been discussed a few times on IRC, but I
can't remember the kind of things people were looking for. So if this a
feature you're interested in, what specifically are you looking for?
d
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* Re: configurable summary line for notmuch search
2021-08-28 15:10 configurable summary line for notmuch search David Bremner
@ 2021-08-28 21:30 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
2021-08-29 0:46 ` Roger Randall
2021-08-29 14:53 ` David Bremner
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz @ 2021-08-28 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Bremner, notmuch
On Sat, Aug 28 2021, David Bremner wrote:
> I was idly thinking about how to provide custom summary formats for
> notmuch-search. I know this has been discussed a few times on IRC, but I
> can't remember the kind of things people were looking for. So if this a
> feature you're interested in, what specifically are you looking for?
I actually have a patch in my queue that implements a form of this, in
two ways. By allowing the "field" to be a function that gets called with
the message property and returns a string, and by allowing the format
string to be a function that takes the value of the field and further
formats it. This is the relevant patch with simple examples in the
documentation:
https://jao.io/cgit/notmuch/commit/?h=tree-result-format&id=0d7d909aa8bc4fb8e5ab80f93bc397fbed666761
and this is an example of how i use it to have a marker in my result
lists that tells me if i'm the recipient of the displayed email and to
trunctate the subject to a maximum length:
(setq notmuch-tree-result-format
'(("date" . "%12s ")
("authors" . "%-35s")
(jao-notmuch-msg-ticks)
("subject" . jao-notmuch-truncate)
("tags" . " (%s)")))
(defun jao-notmuch-msg-ticks (msg)
(let ((headers (plist-get msg :headers)))
(cond ((string-match-p jao-mails-regexp (or (plist-get headers :To) ""))
(propertize " »" 'face 'notmuch-tree-match-tree-face))
((string-match-p jao-mails-regexp (or (plist-get headers :Cc) ""))
(propertize " ¬" 'face 'notmuch-tree-match-tree-face))
(t " "))))
(defun jao-notmuch-truncate (x)
(truncate-string-to-width (format "%-102s" x) 102 nil nil t))
what do you think?
cheers,
jao
--
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
-Katharine Hepburn, actress (1907-2003)
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* Re: configurable summary line for notmuch search
2021-08-28 21:30 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
@ 2021-08-29 0:46 ` Roger Randall
2021-09-01 16:25 ` Alexander Adolf
2021-08-29 14:53 ` David Bremner
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Roger Randall @ 2021-08-29 0:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz, David Bremner, notmuch
Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 28 2021, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> I was idly thinking about how to provide custom summary formats for
>> notmuch-search. I know this has been discussed a few times on IRC, but I
>> can't remember the kind of things people were looking for. So if this a
>> feature you're interested in, what specifically are you looking for?
>
> I actually have a patch in my queue that implements a form of this, in
> two ways. By allowing the "field" to be a function that gets called with
> the message property and returns a string, and by allowing the format
> string to be a function that takes the value of the field and further
> formats it. This is the relevant patch with simple examples in the
> documentation:
>
> https://jao.io/cgit/notmuch/commit/?h=tree-result-format&id=0d7d909aa8bc4fb8e5ab80f93bc397fbed666761
>
> and this is an example of how i use it to have a marker in my result
> lists that tells me if i'm the recipient of the displayed email and to
> trunctate the subject to a maximum length:
>
> (setq notmuch-tree-result-format
> '(("date" . "%12s ")
> ("authors" . "%-35s")
> (jao-notmuch-msg-ticks)
> ("subject" . jao-notmuch-truncate)
> ("tags" . " (%s)")))
>
> (defun jao-notmuch-msg-ticks (msg)
> (let ((headers (plist-get msg :headers)))
> (cond ((string-match-p jao-mails-regexp (or (plist-get headers :To) ""))
> (propertize " »" 'face 'notmuch-tree-match-tree-face))
> ((string-match-p jao-mails-regexp (or (plist-get headers :Cc) ""))
> (propertize " ¬" 'face 'notmuch-tree-match-tree-face))
> (t " "))))
>
> (defun jao-notmuch-truncate (x)
> (truncate-string-to-width (format "%-102s" x) 102 nil nil t))
>
> what do you think?
>
> cheers,
> jao
> --
> I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
> -Katharine Hepburn, actress (1907-2003)
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I greatly desire the ability to limit the subject length so (in my case)
tags consistently line-up in the same column.
Along those lines, I would also like the ability to
explicitly set the order in which tags are shown in notmuch-search (as
opposed to purely alphabetical).
- RER
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* Re: configurable summary line for notmuch search
2021-08-28 21:30 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
2021-08-29 0:46 ` Roger Randall
@ 2021-08-29 14:53 ` David Bremner
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Bremner @ 2021-08-29 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz, notmuch
Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 28 2021, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> I was idly thinking about how to provide custom summary formats for
>> notmuch-search. I know this has been discussed a few times on IRC, but I
>> can't remember the kind of things people were looking for. So if this a
>> feature you're interested in, what specifically are you looking for?
>
> I actually have a patch in my queue that implements a form of this, in
> two ways. By allowing the "field" to be a function that gets called with
> the message property and returns a string, and by allowing the format
> string to be a function that takes the value of the field and further
> formats it. This is the relevant patch with simple examples in the
> documentation:
[snip]
> what do you think?
I was thinking of a facility available to command line users of
notmuch-search. But if the main use case is in emacs, then it would
almost certainly be easier to implement in elisp, assuming the
information is available.
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* Re: configurable summary line for notmuch search
2021-08-29 0:46 ` Roger Randall
@ 2021-09-01 16:25 ` Alexander Adolf
2021-09-01 18:52 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Adolf @ 2021-09-01 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Roger Randall, Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz, David Bremner, notmuch
Roger Randall <roger@rogerrandall.com> writes:
> [...]
> Along those lines, I would also like the ability to
> explicitly set the order in which tags are shown in notmuch-search (as
> opposed to purely alphabetical).
> [...]
I have to admit having been intrigued by this thought, too. How could
this work? I guess one could want specific tags to always be at the
start, or the end of the tags string, and perhaps in a specific order.
Implementation-wise this could be done with weights, or priorities. Each
tag gets a default weight/priority, say zero. I would then like to be
able to set up regular expressions to assign different
weights/priorities to tags matching these regexps. Tags would then be
displayed in ascending weight/priority order (i.e. negative
weights/priorities first, then zero, then positive weights/priorities).
Within the same weight/priority value, alphabetic ordering would be
used.
What if a tag matches more than one regexp? Are the weights/priorities
added up, or does the minimum weight/priority "win"?
For me, this would be interesting for Emacs only, i.e. likely best
implemented in elisp.
That said, this could - more or less - easily be done with the patch
proposed on this thread by jao. <hint>_Provided_ that it will be amended
to not only cover notmuch-tree-result-format, but also
notmuch-search-result-format.</hint> ;-)
Cheers,
--alex
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* Re: configurable summary line for notmuch search
2021-09-01 16:25 ` Alexander Adolf
@ 2021-09-01 18:52 ` Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz @ 2021-09-01 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Adolf, Roger Randall, David Bremner, notmuch
On Wed, Sep 01 2021, Alexander Adolf wrote:
> That said, this could - more or less - easily be done with the patch
> proposed on this thread by jao. <hint>_Provided_ that it will be amended
> to not only cover notmuch-tree-result-format, but also
> notmuch-search-result-format.</hint> ;-)
fwiw, that patch already covers both variables.
jao
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