Hi, Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't following the ml.
David Bremner wrote: > There is apparently still some people that use it (although notice the > "Vote" column is 0). > > On the other hand > > - The vim frontend is afaik the last thing depending on the legacy text > output format. > > - The plugin seems to be only semi-functional at the moment; in a quick > test I found a message that didn't display it's content, and one that > displayed the content, along with "junk" from the internal > representation. Indeed, I'd say the code is very poor at best. > - There are now several alternatives for people whose only motivation to > use the vim frontend was dislike of emacs (alot and notmuch-mutt). I did try the emacs frontend, and it was not working properly for me at the time, and I believe I documented my issues. It was not just my dislike of emacs that motivated me to write notmuch-vim-ruby. > There are several alternative vim frontends floating around in (at > least) ruby and python. I don't if they are better or worse > functionality wise. I'd say notmuch-vim-ruby is the best one, but of course I'm biased :) > I'm considering stopping building debian packages for notmuch-vim, since > I don't see any current prospects for the package improving. I'm not > sure what the equivalent thing to do upstream would be, perhaps moving > it to contrib. Or, deprecating it and then removing it. > > What do people think? Personally I think notmuch-vim should be replaced with notmuch-vim-ruby. I did try the python version, and remember discussing options with the guy developing it, but nothing happened out of it, and I think the ruby version is superior. I'd be open to discuss the options here, but I think notmuch-vim-ruby is the only real option. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
