Excerpts from Jameson Rollins's message of Sat Jan 16 15:49:55 -0500 2010: > To fascilitate this, two new functions should be implemented at the > notmuch CLI level, so that things don't get fractured by different > mail reader implementations: > > notmuch purge > > delete all 'delete' tagged messages, and/or execute "delete hooks" > > notmuch archive <search-terms> > > remove 'inbox' flags from messages and move messages an archive > maildir, and/or execute "archive hooks" > I'm a little suspicious of this. Again, it seems like there is nothing whatsoever preventing one from implementing this at a higher-level than notmuch, which I believe should be little more than a thin-wrapper around Xapian unless more functionality is absolutely necessary. I don't understand why these sorts of proposals keep coming up when the above, for example, could be easily implemented in a pair of ten line shell scripts. Am I missing something?
In my opinion, the "fractured implementations" argument is mislead at best. We currently have exactly two (in the case of vim, somewhat) usable UIs. It's not difficult to see to it that they obey similar conventions. If another UI pops up that fails to obey your favorite convention, feel free to patch it. IMHO, it is not the place of notmuch to force semantics onto the user (in fact, it tries to avoid this wherever possible). - Ben