On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:34:34 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Servilio Afre Puentes wrote: > > On 13 October 2010 08:13, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote: > > [...] > > > THERE IS CURRENTLY ONE KNOWN ISSUE: Viewing/storing of attachments of > > > unread messages doesn't work. The reason is that when you view the > > > message its unread tag is removed which causes the file to be renamed, > > > but Emacs still uses the original name to access the attachment. You can > > > workaround this by closing the message and opening it again. This issue > > > will be fixed after we (I) implement "notmuch cat" command. With this > > > command, emacs would not access the messages by the file name, but by > > > running notmuch cat id:<message-id> which will always give the correct > > > content. > > > > Wouldn't it be more efficient to query notmuch for the filename using > > the message ID we store in the DB? When network usage is implemented, > > tramp can give us transparent remote file access in emacs. > > Tramp would not be available in non-emacs GUIs. Also, when notmuch cat > is implemented, emacs gui will be usable remotely by simply defining > notmuch-command variable to contain the name of the script containing: > > ssh user at host notmuch "$@"
That to me is certainly a very elegant solution... so what's stopping us from implementing notmuch cat? No one taken the time to do it? Or is there a design issue left to be resolved? /D