[PATCH 1/2] Emacs: Test for turning off indentation of messages in threads

Felix Geller fgeller at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 15:28:38 PDT 2011 

In Emacs, notmuch indents messages according to their thread
depth. This leads to unused space and sometimes strange
formatting of paragraphs with long lines. Therefore I would like
to turn it off and have the message thread look more like a
conversation, as on GMail for example.

This commit contains a test for such functionality. It tests
notmuch-show for a message thread without the indentation to
indicate thread depth of messages.
---
 test/emacs                                         |    7 +
 ...show-thread-maildir-storage-without-indentation |  215 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/emacs.expected-output/notmuch-show-thread-maildir-storage-without-indentation

diff --git a/test/emacs b/test/emacs
index 53f455a..c65d6d8 100755
--- a/test/emacs
+++ b/test/emacs
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ test_emacs "(notmuch-show \"$maildir_storage_thread\")
 	    (test-output)"
 test_expect_equal_file OUTPUT $EXPECTED/notmuch-show-thread-maildir-storage
 
+test_begin_subtest "Basic notmuch-show view in emacs without indentation"
+maildir_storage_thread=$(notmuch search --output=threads id:20091117190054.GU3165 at dottiness.seas.harvard.edu)
+test_emacs "(let ((notmuch-show-indent-messages-in-thread nil))
+	      (notmuch-show \"$maildir_storage_thread\")
+	      (test-output))"
+test_expect_equal_file OUTPUT $EXPECTED/notmuch-show-thread-maildir-storage-without-indentation
+
 test_begin_subtest "notmuch-show for message with invalid From"
 add_message "[subject]=\"message-with-invalid-from\"" \
 	    "[from]=\"\\\"Invalid \\\" From\\\" <test_suite at notmuchmail.org>\""
diff --git a/test/emacs.expected-output/notmuch-show-thread-maildir-storage-without-indentation b/test/emacs.expected-output/notmuch-show-thread-maildir-storage-without-indentation
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00bd006
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/emacs.expected-output/notmuch-show-thread-maildir-storage-without-indentation
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-17) (inbox signed)
+Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0500
+
+[ multipart/mixed ]
+[ multipart/signed ]
+[ text/plain ]
+I saw the LWN article and decided to take a look at notmuch.  I'm
+currently using mutt and mairix to index and read a collection of
+Maildir mail folders (around 40,000 messages total).
+
+notmuch indexed the messages without complaint, but my attempt at
+searching bombed out. Running, for example:
+
+  notmuch search storage
+
+Resulted in 4604 lines of errors along the lines of:
+
+  Error opening
+  /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
+  Too many open files
+
+I'm curious if this is expected behavior (i.e., notmuch does not work
+with Maildir) or if something else is going on.
+
+Cheers,
+
+[ 5-line signature. Click/Enter to show. ]
+-- 
+Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu>
+Senior Technologist, Computing and Information Technology
+Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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+Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag at dottedmag.net> (2009-11-17) (inbox signed unread)
+Subject: Re: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:02:38 +0600
+
+[ multipart/mixed ]
+[ multipart/signed ]
+[ text/plain ]
+
+Twas brillig at 14:00:54 17.11.2009 UTC-05 when lars at seas.harvard.edu did gyre and gimble:
+
+ LK> Resulted in 4604 lines of errors along the lines of:
+
+ LK>   Error opening
+ LK>   /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
+ LK>   Too many open files
+
+See the patch just posted here.
+
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+-- 
+  http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
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+Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-17) (inbox signed unread)
+Subject: Re: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag at dottedmag.net>
+Cc: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:01 -0500
+
+[ multipart/mixed ]
+[ multipart/signed ]
+[ text/plain ]
+> See the patch just posted here.
+
+Is the list archived anywhere?  The obvious archives
+(http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/) aren't available, and I
+think I subscribed too late to get the patch (I only just saw the
+discussion about it).
+
+It doesn't look like the patch is in git yet.
+
+-- Lars
+
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+-- 
+Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu>
+Senior Technologist, Computing and Information Technology
+Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
+
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+Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag at dottedmag.net> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
+Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:50:48 +0600
+
+
+Twas brillig at 15:33:01 17.11.2009 UTC-05 when lars at seas.harvard.edu did gyre and gimble:
+
+ LK> Is the list archived anywhere?  The obvious archives
+ LK> (http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/) aren't available, and I
+ LK> think I subscribed too late to get the patch (I only just saw the
+ LK> discussion about it).
+
+ LK> It doesn't look like the patch is in git yet.
+
+Just has been pushed
+
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+-- 
+  http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
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+Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> (2009-11-17) (inbox unread)
+Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:24:13 -0800
+
+On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:01 -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
+> > See the patch just posted here.
+
+I've also pushed a slightly more complicated (and complete) fix to my
+private notmuch repository
+
+git://keithp.com/git/notmuch
+
+> Is the list archived anywhere?
+
+Oops. Looks like Carl's mail server is broken. He's traveling to
+Barcelona today and so it won't get fixed for a while.
+
+Thanks to everyone for trying out notmuch!
+
+-keith
+
+Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> (2009-11-18) (inbox signed unread)
+Subject: Re: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
+Cc: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:50:40 -0500
+
+[ multipart/mixed ]
+[ multipart/signed ]
+[ text/plain ]
+> I've also pushed a slightly more complicated (and complete) fix to my
+> private notmuch repository
+
+The version of lib/messages.cc in your repo doesn't build because it's
+missing "#include <stdint.h>" (for the uint32_t on line 466).
+
+[ 5-line signature. Click/Enter to show. ]
+-- 
+Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu>
+Senior Technologist, Computing and Information Technology
+Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
+
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+Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> (2009-11-18) (inbox unread)
+Subject: [notmuch] Working with Maildir storage?
+To: notmuch at notmuchmail.org
+Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:08:10 -0800
+
+On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
+> I saw the LWN article and decided to take a look at notmuch.  I'm
+> currently using mutt and mairix to index and read a collection of
+> Maildir mail folders (around 40,000 messages total).
+
+Welcome, Lars!
+
+I hadn't even seen that Keith's blog post had been picked up by lwn.net.
+That's very interesting. So, thanks for coming and trying out notmuch.
+
+>   Error opening
+>   /home/lars/Mail/read-messages.2008/cur/1246413773.24928_27334.hostname,U=3026:2,S:
+>   Too many open files
+
+Sadly, the lwn article coincided with me having just introduced this
+bug, and then getting on a Trans-Atlantic flight. So I fixed the bug
+fairly quickly, but there was quite a bit of latency before I could push
+the fix out. It should be fixed now.
+
+> I'm curious if this is expected behavior (i.e., notmuch does not work
+> with Maildir) or if something else is going on.
+
+Notmuch works just fine with maildir---it's one of the things that it
+likes the best.
+
+Happy hacking,
+
+-Carl
+
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