On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:13:01 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: > * This should be integrated such that (require 'notmuch) provides the > notmuch-hello functionality. That's our documented access point for > getting at notmuch functionality. I'll do this, but I wonder if it is actually good advice. It causes notmuch.el (and anything that requires) to be loaded immediately. This will typically happen before any of a users' customisation settings are loaded (as `custom-set-variables', etc. generally happens right at the bottom of .emacs). A result of this is that notmuch can't use any of the customisation settings to adapt its' behaviour at load time. A example is (about which more lower down): > * I would *love* a simple way to import my existing notmuch-folder > configuration into notmuch-hello. Bonus points if this happens > automatically. notmuch-hello.el has: (defcustom notmuch-hello-saved-searches notmuch-folders "A list of saved searches to display." :type '(alist :key-type string :value-type string) :group 'notmuch) So if `notmuch-folders' is set before notmuch-hello.el is loaded, you get some saved-searches copied from your folders (but this won't override any specific settings you made for `notmuch-hello-saved-searches'). Relying on the order in general is bad (cf. `notmuch-search-authors-width'), but it can allow us to provide some useful functionality. If we don't want users to "(require 'notmuch)" we'd probably have to suggest one or more autoloads - perhaps even provide a file with a bunch of autoloads in it. Oh, or "(require 'notmuch)" should just load something that has the autoloads (d'oh!) and some `define-mail-user-agent' goop so that `compose-mail' does the right thing. I'll try to produce a patch for this last thing. > * The logo background is gray on my white-background emacs. That > looks odd. Patch sent. > * It would be great if point were in the search bar right when this > mode started. This is customisable, and I see that you changed the default ;-) > * I'd like the saved searches to appear before the recent searches I > think. Did you come to any conclusion about this? > * I'm not sure how useful the numbered shortcuts are for the recent > searches. We want to encourage people to move to saved searches > instead, (and the recent searches are quite transient anyway). So do > we really need these? [I mistook them for message counts at > first.] Patch sent which removes them. > * Repeating a recent search by pressing RET on it creates a new > identical search which doesn't seem all that useful. Patch sent. > * I would *love* a simple way to import my existing notmuch-folder > configuration into notmuch-hello. Bonus points if this happens > automatically. We could have `notmuch-hello' use `notmuch-folders' if `notmuch-hello-saved-searches' is `nil'. Would that help? > Finally, I'm quite inclined to make `notmuch' invoke this mode, so > think about that. It seems straightforward, I'll produce a patch. dme. -- David Edmondson, http://dme.org