On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:50:36 -0400, Servilio Afre Puentes <servilio@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't it be more efficient to query notmuch for the filename using
> the message ID we store in the DB? When network usage is implemented,
> tramp can give us transparent remote file access in emacs.
> 

We can of course do both. From an implementation point of view, they
would both fall under "selective output in plain text" which various
people have been meaning to do, and I think one is no harder than the
other. On the other hand I doubt that there is an efficiency advantage
to using tramp, it is is more fragile (for example it depends on the
remote shell prompt).

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