Olaf TNSB <still.another.person@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com> wrote: >> >> >> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes: >> > This would require some modifications of notmuch. Either modifying >> > lib/index.cc to add the terms at indexing (notmuch new/insert) time, or >> > providing some way of adding the terms later. The former actually sounds >> > simpler to me. >> >> To do this correctly, you'd want to be able to run an external text >> extraction tool (for PDFs, word documents, etc.) so I think the latter >> would be better in the long run (it would allow the user to index >> attachments in the hooks). > > (As a non-dev...) I agree. The ability to add (and delete!) content > post-insert sounds more desirable. I don't want to have to re-index all my > email as the next version of <horrible-binary-object>-to-text gets > released. I'd like to be able to (search-for-attachment)-(delete)-(re-add). There has been some patches (related to encrypted email), that reindex individual messages. So that would be a clean fix for that. I haven't really thought about reindexing parts of messages, which is what seems to be the proposal here. d