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Re: [sup-talk] updated xapian experimental branch



Reformatted excerpts from Rich Lane's message of 2009-11-01:
> The major feature on this branch is the immediate label updates I've
> mentioned before on the list.

Awesome, really awesome.

> Use of Xapian for thread relevance checks
>  - Instead of hardcoding the policy into InboxMode

Awesome.

>  - New 'z' key to clear irrelevant threads
>   - Not strictly necessary, but removing messages in response to index
>     events is difficult with the current UI code

Can you describe this a bit?

> Fallout from async message saving
>  - UpdateManager messages handled in main event loop
>   - Avoids many races but can lag UI unless we're careful

I think this is a great idea.

Thanks for all of this, Rich.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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