[PATCH RFC] Emacs: Add address completion mechanism implemented in elisp

[David Bremner]

Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> writes:

> notmuch-company.el hooks itself into message-mode and uses
> company-mode to offer the completion to the user. The file is put into
> the contrib directory which means that the use has to install it
> himself. This is because company-mode is not a part of Emacs and
> bytecompiling notmuch-company.el fails due to used --quick option that
> causes user installed packages to be ignored. 

what about for now just putting 

;; -*-no-byte-compile: t; -*-

at the top of the file?  It seems usable uncompiled to me.

Then somebody who really wants it compiled can figure out how to do the
conditional compilation.

> It would probably make sense to implement another completion frontend
> based only on Emacs built-in functionality and integrate it with
> notmuch-addresses.el.

Agreed.

> +  "`company-mode' completion back-end for `nevermore (nm)'."

missed "nevermore" ;)


>  
> +(defun notmuch-flatten-thread-set (thread-set)
> +  "Convert the result of 'notmuch show' to the plain list of messages."
> +(defun notmuch-flatten-thread (thread)
> +
> +(defun notmuch-flatten-thread-node (thread-node)


what about putting those functions in notmuch-query.el?


> +(defun notmuch-async-harvest ()
> +  "Collect possible addresses for completion. It queries the


logically it seems like this might belong in notmuch-address.el,
even if none of the functions in  in it currently use


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