On Tue 2017-02-28 12:35:05 -0800, Steven Allen wrote: > Currently, notmuch fetches keys synchronously. This can be *very* slow > (I fetch keys over tor) and locks up emacs for the duration. Therefore, > this fetch really should be asynchronous. > > Unfortunately, getting this to work well (i.e. not interleave output in > the `*notmuch-crypto-gpg-out*` buffer) requires a non-trivial amount of > work. i agree with you that this should be asynchronous, but my elisp-foo isn't sufficient to know how to do this correctly. But i think you've identified a concrete and useful improvement, fwiw. --dkg