RFC: Adding an attachment composition interface to notmuch

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:06:01 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal at jhu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:12:21 -0500, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal at jhu.edu> wrote:
> > Tach is a minor mode that adds mutt-like attachment handling to
> > message mode. It's not notmuch specific, but I wrote it to use with
> > notmuch, and I thought it might be of use to some on the list.
> 
> I wanted to see if there would be any interest in adding this to notmuch
> in 0.4 or after. It makes composing messages with attachments much more
> pleasant that using raw mml-mode, and would likely be much more
> accomodating to new users. With the new notmuch-mua hooks, it would be
> easy to turn on and off as well. I've been using it for a number of
> months, and have not had any problems with it.

I have not played with the version you posted earlier - sofar I use the
attachment functionality that Emacs offers by default and I agree that
this is lacking.
>From your description I can't quite tell if tach is overkill,
though. When I just attach a file I'd like to be able to do this just
using the minibuffer to pick a file - not having to open another buffer,
press +, find the file, etc...
 
> One issue to note: if you start composing a message with tach-mode
> enabled, and then disable it, the attachments you added with tach won't
> get added properly (there will just be a plaintext list of them at the
> the bottom of the message after a separator). In other words, tach
> converts the attachment list on sending, just as message-mode adds
> headers, removes "text follows this line", etc. This doesn't seem like
> an issue to me (a message started by message-mode can't be sent by
> another MUA either) but I did want to bring it to people's attention.

I think that's reasonable

> If there is interest, I would take the necessary steps to integrate it
> and prepare a patch.

I'd be interested to see a notmuch integration...

/D

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Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center