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