Mail summary comparison with Gnus
Does notmuch-search-result-format allow multiple-line formats? i.e.: [5/5] [notmuch] an other ready-to-use store option for notmuch : CouchDB Paul R., Jed Brown, martin f. krafft, James Westby (f//notmuch unread) [2/2] [notmuch] [PATCH] Do not segfault on empty mime parts martin f. krafft, Carl Worth (f//notmuch unread) I didn't seem to work but I thought I'd check in case I wasn't configuring it correctly. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
Mail summary comparison with Gnus
Now that I'm able to start using notmuch with my actual mail, I thought I might provide some impressions from the perspective of a Gnus user. Here's what a recent bit of the notmuch list looks like in my notmuch buffer: May 03 [7/7] (null) [PATCH] Customize saved search ord May 04 [2/2] (null) [PATCH] emacs: Pretty print the nu May 04 [4/4] (null) [PATCH] emacs: More functionality May 07 [4/4] (null) Use of "notmuch count" in notmuch- May 08 [1/1] (null) Fix missing References from broken May 10 [1/1] (null) rfc: improved MIME handling (multi and here's what it looks like in my Gnus summary buffer with threads expanded, which is my default: [ 39: Keith Packard ] [PATCH] Customize saved search order separ [ 19: David Edmondson] [ 65: Carl Worth ] [ 13: Michal Sojka ] [ 92: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH RFC] notmuch-hello: What's [ 45: David Edmondson] [PATCH] Customize saved search order [ 25: David Edmondson] [ 100: David Edmondson] [PATCH] emacs: Pretty print the numbers of [ 17: Carl Worth ] [ 34: David Edmondson] [PATCH] emacs: More functionality for `not [ 18: David Edmondson] [ 37: David Edmondson] [ 22: Carl Worth ] [ 35: Jason White] Use of "notmuch count" in notmuch-hello.el [ 24: Jameson Rollins] [ 7: Jason White] [ 34: Carl Worth ] [ 23: Arvid Picciani ] Fix missing References from broken muas. [ 33: David Edmondson] rfc: improved MIME handling (multipart) [ 50: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 0/5] Git-based modularization of [ 874: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 2/5] Update test framework for [ 444: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 5/5] test: Set all times to UT [1655: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 1/5] Copy test framework from [ 109: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 3/5] test: Update helper funct [2235: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 4/5] Convert the actual tests (Any articles I've replied to would have an 'A' in the far left column, flagged messages would have an exclamation point, and would have red text by default, etc.) The notmuch output probably doesn't have authors because I pulled this mail in via the mail archives (using Gnus 'G f'). I assume that Gnus must be able to parse the obfuscated "keithp at keithp.com (Keith Packard)" style addresses in the archive. I might see if I can add that to notmuch. The notmuch output is definitely more compact, but for me, it favors information that I don't normally care as much about. I'd rather see more subject and author information, and less date. Though perhaps that's just me, and I can always customize it. Also, while I'm not saying that the Gnus approach is ideal, it does make it easy to get a rough impression at a glance about who's talking, to whom, and about what, and you can instantaneously collapse/expand threads (or toggle threading altogether). That might eventually be a nice feature for notmuch. Note too, that Gnus tracks subject changes (at least in this case) within the thread. Whether that's what you really want or not is another question. (Gnus has a lot of information about how it threads and how threading can be adjusted in its info pages (c.f. info gnus "3.9 Threading...")). Hope this is useful -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
Mail summary comparison with Gnus
Now that I'm able to start using notmuch with my actual mail, I thought I might provide some impressions from the perspective of a Gnus user. Here's what a recent bit of the notmuch list looks like in my notmuch buffer: May 03 [7/7] (null) [PATCH] Customize saved search ord May 04 [2/2] (null) [PATCH] emacs: Pretty print the nu May 04 [4/4] (null) [PATCH] emacs: More functionality May 07 [4/4] (null) Use of notmuch count in notmuch- May 08 [1/1] (null) Fix missing References from broken May 10 [1/1] (null) rfc: improved MIME handling (multi and here's what it looks like in my Gnus summary buffer with threads expanded, which is my default: [ 39: Keith Packard ] [PATCH] Customize saved search order separ [ 19: David Edmondson] [ 65: Carl Worth ] [ 13: Michal Sojka ] [ 92: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH RFC] notmuch-hello: What's [ 45: David Edmondson] [PATCH] Customize saved search order [ 25: David Edmondson] [ 100: David Edmondson] [PATCH] emacs: Pretty print the numbers of [ 17: Carl Worth ] [ 34: David Edmondson] [PATCH] emacs: More functionality for `not [ 18: David Edmondson] [ 37: David Edmondson] [ 22: Carl Worth ] [ 35: Jason White] Use of notmuch count in notmuch-hello.el [ 24: Jameson Rollins] [ 7: Jason White] [ 34: Carl Worth ] [ 23: Arvid Picciani ] Fix missing References from broken muas. [ 33: David Edmondson] rfc: improved MIME handling (multipart) [ 50: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 0/5] Git-based modularization of [ 874: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 2/5] Update test framework for [ 444: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 5/5] test: Set all times to UT [1655: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 1/5] Copy test framework from [ 109: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 3/5] test: Update helper funct [2235: Michal Sojka ] [PATCH v2 4/5] Convert the actual tests (Any articles I've replied to would have an 'A' in the far left column, flagged messages would have an exclamation point, and would have red text by default, etc.) The notmuch output probably doesn't have authors because I pulled this mail in via the mail archives (using Gnus 'G f'). I assume that Gnus must be able to parse the obfuscated keithp at keithp.com (Keith Packard) style addresses in the archive. I might see if I can add that to notmuch. The notmuch output is definitely more compact, but for me, it favors information that I don't normally care as much about. I'd rather see more subject and author information, and less date. Though perhaps that's just me, and I can always customize it. Also, while I'm not saying that the Gnus approach is ideal, it does make it easy to get a rough impression at a glance about who's talking, to whom, and about what, and you can instantaneously collapse/expand threads (or toggle threading altogether). That might eventually be a nice feature for notmuch. Note too, that Gnus tracks subject changes (at least in this case) within the thread. Whether that's what you really want or not is another question. (Gnus has a lot of information about how it threads and how threading can be adjusted in its info pages (c.f. info gnus 3.9 Threading...)). Hope this is useful -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
Re: Mail summary comparison with Gnus
Does notmuch-search-result-format allow multiple-line formats? i.e.: [5/5] [notmuch] an other ready-to-use store option for notmuch : CouchDB Paul R., Jed Brown, martin f. krafft, James Westby (f//notmuch unread) [2/2] [notmuch] [PATCH] Do not segfault on empty mime parts martin f. krafft, Carl Worth (f//notmuch unread) I didn't seem to work but I thought I'd check in case I wasn't configuring it correctly. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
