RFC: notmuch-cache.el: simple caching of MIME parts

RFC: notmuch-cache.el: simple caching of MIME parts

[David Edmondson]

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I've been using remote-notmuch over a 3G connection quite a lot
recently. Dragging down the same MIME part more than once is annoying,
so here is a very simple filesystem based cache of MIME parts for
notmuch. It's integrated using defadvice for now, but a cleaner approach
is obviously possible.

No suggestion that this should be integrated - it's just a toy to prompt
discussion.

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(defun notmuch-cache-get (id part)
  "Return a cached copy of ID's MIME PART, or nil."
  nil)

(defun notmuch-cache-put (id part content)
  "Cache a copy of ID's MIME PART using CONTENT."
  )

(defadvice notmuch-get-bodypart-internal

Re: RFC: notmuch-cache.el: simple caching of MIME parts

[David Edmondson]

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On Tue, Oct 07 2014, David Edmondson wrote:
> I've been using remote-notmuch over a 3G connection quite a lot
> recently. Dragging down the same MIME part more than once is annoying,
> so here is a very simple filesystem based cache of MIME parts for
> notmuch. It's integrated using defadvice for now, but a cleaner approach
> is obviously possible.
>
> No suggestion that this should be integrated - it's just a toy to prompt
> discussion.

Bah. Attached the auto-save file :-p


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Re: RFC: notmuch-cache.el: simple caching of MIME parts

[Jesse Rosenthal]

Hi David,

David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> ...here is a very simple filesystem based cache of MIME parts for
> notmuch. It's integrated using defadvice for now, but a cleaner
> approach is obviously possible.

Just to say that this is great, and very much appreciated. There are
some threads I avoided opening (or opened from the cli) because they
started with huge attachments and I didn't feel like waiting.

I used to have something like this in my remote script, but trashed it
when I lost track of the emacs client internals, and wasn't sure anymore
what commands were called for attachments. So I'm very glad you were
moved to write this, and even gladder you posted it.

Best,
Jesse