suggestion: make the dashboard read/write (or embeddable)

[dmgerman]

hi Nicolas,

I have been a long time user of the mu4e-dashboard. Thank you for developing it.

However, I find two major issues with it:

1. It is read only
2. It is not "embeddable" into other files.

Ideally, I would like to use the dashboard from my daily file. That way my daily is my main dashboard.

I thought about it and implemented a function that:

1. Finds a predefined header (e.g. Flagged Emails).
2. Removes its contents
3. Scans the flagged emails (up to a maximum number)
   • for each email, create an entry in a table: date, subject, from
   • the subject is an org link to the email using its message id

This way I can run a function to update the headline.

I have also done something similar to NEXT actions.

In general, the idea would be that an action in the dashboard replaces a given header (or creates it if does not exist) with the corresponding content.

Note that text properties allow sections of a buffer to be read-only. So it is possible to guarantee that some sections in the mu4e dashboard remain always read-only.

If this is of interest to anybody, I can share the code.

--dmg

[rougier]

Problem is that during an update, the dashboard is written automatically and if you edit at the same time, it will mess up things. I've commited a modification that suspend update when you're in RW mode but you have to explicitly enter RW mode manually. Would that work for you?