[PROTO] possible solution for "Race condition for '*' command"

[Pieter Praet]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:56:26 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
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> Ah, this is subtler than I thought. You're right that, for the '*'
> command, you want only the matched ID's. Tagging a region, however,
> operates on entire threads. I think it's important to retain this
> behavior because threads are what the user sees and selects in the
> search buffer (*, on the other hand, doesn't have a strong visual
> analogue).

Duly noted.

> (This also means * is not, in fact, equivalent to expanding the region
> the the entire buffer and then tagging the region.)

In fact it *is* but we'd be fetching the `matched-msgids' property
rather than the `thread-id' property, for each line in region.

> I should probably emit two lists per thread: one of matched IDs and
> one of unmatched IDs. Tagging a region can then operate on the
> concatenation of these, while * can operate only on the matched
> lists. This should be easy to do. I'll send an updated patch when I'm
> back at a computer.

The matched MsgIds will be sufficient, as we'll want to operate on
either the matched messages or the entire thread (for which the
`thread-id' property is already present).

Can't think of a use case for non-matched messages right now,
but if required, we'll just use `set-exclusive-or'.

> -- 
> Sent from my Android. Please excuse my brevity.

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> Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Austin!
> 
> Unfortunately, your patch causes *all* Message-Id's in the thread to be
> appended, as opposed to only the ones matching the query:
> 
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> $ notmuch search tag:inbox AND from:amdragon at mit.edu
> thread:0000000000002777 Yest. 19:17 [1/3] Austin Clements| Pieter Praet;
> [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] possible solution for "Race condition for '*' command"
> (inbox replied sent to-me x/notmuch)
> id:"CAH-f9WticM4EN8F1_ik_-mcBcBtrXwSpO+Drbtp7=UN7McECrg at mail.gmail.com"
> or id:"87zkkwydag.fsf at praet.org" or id:"20110703171743.GL15901 at mit.edu"
> #+END_EXAMPLE
> 
> As you can see, according to matched/total ("[1/3]") only a single
> message matches the query, yet all 3 MsgId's are returned.
> 
> If this were to be corrected (probably a trivial change, but I'm pretty
> much oblivious as to the what and where of it), the following patch
> series should work as intended.
> 
> The "--stdin" option works as expected (and ARG_MAX is indeed a very
> valid concern with this particular use case), but I haven't yet gotten
> around to making use of it from the Emacs UI as this would require some
> screwing around with `notmuch-tag' and `notmuch-call-notmuch-process',
> and it's still pretty early I-).
> 
> Peace
> 
> -- 
> Pieter
> 
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Peace

-- 
Pieter

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