Re: [PATCH] NEWS: add news entry for tree navigation changes

Subject: Re: [PATCH] NEWS: add news entry for tree navigation changes

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:38:49 -0700

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: Jonas Bernoulli, Teemu Likonen

From: William Casarin


David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
>> ---
>>  NEWS | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>
> Applied to master and release, with a tiny wording change.
>
> I realized when looking at this that I had completely forgotten
> notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.  I suspect some of emacs interface is
> not as discoverable as we think it is

Indeed, I only discovered this function after Teemu mentioned[1] it in a
mailing list thread. I've always like the magit docs, maybe we can get
to something like that eventually.

[1] id:87pnhxceoy.fsf@iki.fi

The elisp code has plenty of comments that document each function,
perhaps there could be a way to generate documentation from that? Not
sure how magit does it.

> and it would be worth updating
> (not for the upcoming release, but afterwards) doc/notmuch-emacs.rst
> with some of the nifty features that have been added since I
> optimistically wrote (eb6fb36d)
>
>     This is pretty minimal, but will hopefully inspire others to
>     contribute more complete documentation

Oh good to know! Didn't realize this was a thing.

Cheers,
Will

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