[notmuch] First attempt to add smart completion in notmuch-search
racin at free.fr
racin at free.fr
Fri Dec 18 07:00:49 PST 2009
Hi!
Here is a first attempt to add "smart completion" to notmuch-search.
What it does is that:
- It tries to detects when you hit tab to complete a search term
prefix (like to, from, subject...) , and if so completes your
prefix;
- If you try to complete a search term usign a specific prefix (like
to), it helps you complete it using prefix founds in the messages
matching the current search string.
The patch has a Emacs-lisp part and a C part.
I'm submitting the patch to know what people think of it, but there
are some things still uncomplete:
- I think headers should be parsed so that a better output is
proposed, but I don't know which one yet;
- There may be performance issues (because fetching headers require
looking them in each message file), but I'm not sure if this is
really a problem (since we already fetch headers to display it in
the summary buffer).
- I have a problem that notmuch-search-query-string is buffer-local
and I can't access it from the minibuffer, which I don't know how
to solve properly
- There are still some glitches with the "".
- There may be many other improvements that I haven't thought of.
Anyway, I hope it's useful; I'll continue working on it when I come
back from Holidays.
Thanks for your input,
Matthieu
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