[PATCH v2] emacs: Turn id:"<message-id>" elements into buttons for notmuch searches

[Pieter Praet]

On Wed,  6 Jul 2011 16:18:01 +0200, Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This fixes the minor annoyance that message ids were parsed as mail
> addresses by goto-address-mode in notmuch-show buffers.
> ---
>  emacs/notmuch-show.el |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
> index f96743b..f924d17 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  (require 'mm-decode)
>  (require 'mailcap)
>  (require 'icalendar)
> +(require 'goto-addr)
>  
>  (require 'notmuch-lib)
>  (require 'notmuch-query)
> @@ -778,6 +779,24 @@ current buffer, if possible."
>  (defvar notmuch-show-parent-buffer nil)
>  (make-variable-buffer-local 'notmuch-show-parent-buffer)
>  
> +(defun notmuch-show-buttonise-links (start end)
> +  "Buttonise URLs and mail addresses between START and END.
> +
> +This also turns id:\"<message id>\"-parts into buttons for
> +a corresponding notmuch search."
> +  (goto-address-fontify-region start end)
> +  (save-excursion
> +    (goto-char start)
> +    (while (re-search-forward "id:\"[^ ]+\"" end t)
> +      ;; remove the overlay created by goto-address-mode
> +      (remove-overlays (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0) 'goto-address t)
> +      (make-text-button (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
> +			'action `(lambda (arg)
> +				   (notmuch-search ,(match-string-no-properties 0)))
> +			'follow-link t
> +			'help-echo "Mouse-1, RET: search for this message"
> +			'face goto-address-mail-face))))
> +
>  ;;;###autoload
>  (defun notmuch-show (thread-id &optional parent-buffer query-context buffer-name crypto-switch)
>    "Run \"notmuch show\" with the given thread ID and display results.
> @@ -822,9 +841,8 @@ function is used. "
>  	  (notmuch-show-insert-forest
>  	   (notmuch-query-get-threads basic-args))))
>  
> -      ;; Enable buttonisation of URLs and email addresses in the
> -      ;; buffer.
> -      (goto-address-mode t)
> +      (jit-lock-register #'notmuch-show-buttonise-links)
> +
>        ;; Act on visual lines rather than logical lines.
>        (visual-line-mode t)
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
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Signed-off-by: Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org>

Fantastic usability improvement Daniel!


Peace

-- 
Pieter