[PATCH] emacs: Mention race condition safety in user visible documentation

[Michal Sojka]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2012 12:44 AM, "Michal Sojka" <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> >
> > After recent rework of a/A/x/X key bindings, the important paragraph in
> > documentation of `notmuch-show-archive-thread' stayed hidden from users,
> > because no key is bound to this function.
> >
> > This patch copies the important paragraph to the documentation of
> > functions currently bound to keys.
> 
> Hi Michal, this was discussed earlier, and Dmitry convinced me that the
> code does exactly what the user expects it to do (archives only the
> messages in the buffer) so it would be unnecessary and confusing to have
> this documentation. It could be added as a comment for developers I
> guess.

I'm not sure. As a developer, I'm used to think about race conditions
and the mentioned documentation sounds very racy to me. I guess a lot of
other notmuch users are developers who may think the same.

> >  (defun notmuch-show-archive-thread-then-next ()
> > -  "Archive each message in thread, then show next thread from search."

What about changing it to "Archive each message in the current buffer, ..."?

-Michal