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

Pieter Praet pieter at praet.org
Wed Feb 22 12:04:50 PST 2012


On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:15:08 +0100, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> [...]
> OK, at least one supporter here :) The updated patch follows:
> 
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] emacs: Clarify description of thread manipulating functions
> 
> It is not clear whether the term "thread" refers to the thread in the
> database or to the thread currently shown in a buffer. Those two
> meanings may refer to different sets of messages, e.g. when a new email
> is added to the database while the buffer shows the state before the new
> email arrived.
> 
> This patch replaces the term thread with the term current buffer, which
> is hopefully less ambiguous.
> ---

+1


Also, the inverse is true for the comment about `notmuch-search-tag-all'
in `notmuch-search-mode's docstring.  Patch follows.


Peace

-- 
Pieter


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