[PATCH] emacs: Add notmuch-hello.el, a friendly frontend to notmuch

[Carl Worth]

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:36:28 +0100, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> > >   * It would be great if point were in the search bar right when this
> > >     mode started.
> > 
> > This is customisable, and I see that you changed the default ;-)
> 
> Yes. I'm still on the fence about this change, (as we are talking in the
> other thread).
> 
> > >   * I'd like the saved searches to appear before the recent searches I
> > >     think.
> > 
> > Did you come to any conclusion about this?

I thought about these this morning and here are my latest thoughts on
what I would like to see:

  1. Change the "notmuch" and message count in the welcome sentence to
     not be buttons.

  2. Put the saved searches (if any) before the search bar.

  3. When `notmuch-hello' (or even `notmuch' when it gets its new name)
     is invoked directly, move to the first button, (go to point-min and
     then call widget-forward). That is, if the user has any saved
     searches, then point will be on the first one. If the user has no
     saved searches, then point will be on the search bar.

  4. Fix refresh of notmuch-hello to leave point in the same logical
     place, (the same saved-search widget at least).

What do you think? This will give new users the ability to just type a
search string as their first interaction. Users with a little more
experience, (enough to have saved a search), will have easier access to
those, and will not have the search bar interfering with keybindings.

-Carl

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carl.d.worth at intel.com
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:59:07 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
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