On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:45:59 -0800, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:02:43 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> > On Mon,  5 Sep 2011 07:14:36 +0300, Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info> wrote:
> >
> > If the poll script runs asynchronously, won't the notmuch-search output
> > refresh and jump into my face when I'm busy doing something else? And,
> > if I'm not busy doing something else, why can't I just wait for the poll
> > script to complete?
> 
> Well, he might have dropped it (and notmuch), but I've been wondering
> about the possibilities of this for the emacs client. What I was
> imagining was some sort of modeline notifier, like what ERC offers. It
> could easily alert you without jumping into your face.

It sounds useful, but that patch is not it.