On Mon, 16 May 2011 14:36:07 +0300, Felipe Contreras
felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:15 PM, an...@khirnov.net wrote:
my attempts to make the vim client more usable somehow spiraled out of
control and turned into a huge rewrite. The intermediate results I
hereby present for your amusement and comments.
(attached as whole files, since the patch would be unreadable)
The main point of the rewrite is splitting of a large part of the code
into Python. This should have the following advantages:
1) python-notmuch bindings can be used, which should allow for cleaner
and more reliable code than running the binary and parsing its output
with regexps.
(also provides a nice use case for python-notmuch)
2) Python's huge standard library makes implementing some features MUCH
easier.
3) More people know Python than vimscript, thus making the client
development easier
The code is α quality, but should be close to usable.
It already has some features not present in the mainline vim client,
like attachments (viewing and sending, saving to file should be trivial
to add, will be done when I have some time), better support for unicode
and more.
Some UI features from the mainline versions that I didn't use were
removed and customization options are somewhat lacking atm. This is of
course to be improved later, depending on the responses.
Comments, bugreports and fixes very much welcome.
Do you have a git repo where to fetch these changes? Or can you
provide a series of patches with 'git format-patch'?
Ah right, forgot to mention it.
git://git.khirnov.net/git/notmuch
branch vim.
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Anton Khirnov
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