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

[Michal Sojka]

Hi David,

On Fri, Aug 01 2014, David Bremner wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the comments. I incorporated them in a new version of the
patch, which I'll send in a while.

-Michal