Re: [PATCH] VIM: Automatically refresh folder screen

Subject: Re: [PATCH] VIM: Automatically refresh folder screen

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:08:00 +0100

To: Ian Main, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Ian Main <imain@stemwinder.org> writes:

> This patch makes the folder screen refresh each time you 'enter' it.
> This way when you read a folder and mark items as read the changes are
> reflected immediately when you return to the folder view.

It seems to work, but it is pretty slow for large mailboxes. I have
270000 unread messages and there is a pause of about 1 second when
returning to the "folder screen".  I'm not sure, maybe the vim interface
is just overall not usable with such large search results?


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