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David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Tue Jun 13 18:22:50 PDT 2017
Damien Cassou <damien at cassou.me> writes:
>> OK, I see with counsel-imenu the current indexing by header lines is
>> reasonable. It might be improvable by adding the subject, but I'm
>> not sure about line lengths.
>> - maybe the docstrings should recomment counsel-imenu?
>
> I'm not sure as the function
> `notmuch-show-imenu-extract-index-name-function` is private and there
> are other imenu frontends available. What about a NEWS entry instead
> along those lines:
>
> * Add Emacs' imenu support in notmuch-show and notmuch-search
>
> Emacs' major modes can facilitate navigation in their buffers by
> supporting Imenu. In such major modes, launching Imenu (M-x imenu)
> makes Emacs display a list of items (e.g., function definitions in
> a code buffer). Selecting an item from this list moves point to
> this item.
>
> This release adds Imenu support to both notmuch-show and
> notmuch-search buffers:
>
> * in notmuch-show, Imenu will present a list of all messages in
> the currently visible thread;
>
> * in notmuch-search, Imenu will present a list of all messages in the
> search buffer.
>
> We recommand an external imenu frontend, such as counsel-imenu,
> which will make the experience much better that the default `M-x
> imenu`.
That sounds fine.
>> I think the indentation should probably go to make it more usable
>> with the builtin imenu
>
> I did that in the patch even though I liked it with indentation better.
I haven't had a chance to test the new version yet, but I think I know
what you mean from testing counsel-imenu. Is it worth adding a
customization variable so that the user can choose indentation if they
have a more sophisticated imenu front end?
d
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