[PATCH] emacs: Tab completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
Jameson Graef Rollins
jrollins at finestructure.net
Fri Aug 5 14:03:28 PDT 2011
From: Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe at googlemail.com>
This patch adds completion with <tab> in the minibuffer for
notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter.
---
This is a slightly tweaked version of this original patch that removes
an errant space and uses "search --output=tags" instead of the
deprecated "search-tags".
emacs/notmuch.el | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
index 6bf42e8..053f0be 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
@@ -877,6 +877,35 @@ characters as well as `_.+-'.
(concat "*notmuch-search-" query "*"))
)))
+(defun notmuch-read-query (prompt)
+ "Read a notmuch-query from the minibuffer with completion.
+
+PROMPT is the string to prompt with."
+ (lexical-let
+ ((completions
+ (append (list "folder:" "thread:" "id:" "date:" "from:" "to:"
+ "subject:" "attachment:")
+ (mapcar (lambda (tag)
+ (concat "tag:" tag))
+ (process-lines "notmuch" "search" "--output=tags" "*")))))
+ (let ((keymap (copy-keymap minibuffer-local-map))
+ (minibuffer-completion-table
+ (completion-table-dynamic
+ (lambda (string)
+ ;; generate a list of possible completions for the current input
+ (cond
+ ;; this ugly regexp is used to get the last word of the input
+ ;; possibly preceded by a '('
+ ((string-match "\\(^\\|.* (?\\)\\([^ ]*\\)$" string)
+ (mapcar (lambda (compl)
+ (concat (match-string-no-properties 1 string) compl))
+ (all-completions (match-string-no-properties 2 string)
+ completions)))
+ (t (list string)))))))
+ ;; this was simpler than convincing completing-read to accept spaces:
+ (define-key keymap (kbd "<tab>") 'minibuffer-complete)
+ (read-from-minibuffer prompt nil keymap nil minibuffer-history nil nil))))
+
;;;###autoload
(defun notmuch-search (query &optional oldest-first target-thread target-line continuation)
"Run \"notmuch search\" with the given query string and display results.
@@ -888,7 +917,7 @@ The optional parameters are used as follows:
current if it appears in the search results.
target-line: The line number to move to if the target thread does not
appear in the search results."
- (interactive "sNotmuch search: ")
+ (interactive (list (notmuch-read-query "Notmuch search: ")))
(let ((buffer (get-buffer-create (notmuch-search-buffer-title query))))
(switch-to-buffer buffer)
(notmuch-search-mode)
@@ -986,7 +1015,7 @@ search."
Runs a new search matching only messages that match both the
current search results AND the additional query string provided."
- (interactive "sFilter search: ")
+ (interactive (list (notmuch-read-query "Filter search: ")))
(let ((grouped-query (if (string-match-p notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp query)
(concat "( " query " )")
query)))
--
1.7.5.4
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