[RFE] Call `gpg --recv-keys` asynchronously

Steven Allen steven at stebalien.com
Tue Feb 28 12:35:05 PST 2017


Currently, notmuch fetches keys synchronously. This can be *very* slow
(I fetch keys over tor) and locks up emacs for the duration. Therefore,
this fetch really should be asynchronous.

Unfortunately, getting this to work well (i.e. not interleave output in
the `*notmuch-crypto-gpg-out*` buffer) requires a non-trivial amount of
work.

- Steven
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