[PATCH 0/8] JSON-based search-mode

[Tomi Ollila]

On Wed, Jul 04 2012, Austin Clements wrote:

> This patch series replaces the text format parser used for search in
> Emacs with a parser for the JSON format.  This should address the
> escaping and flexibility problems that have plagued the text format.
> Like the text format, it supports incremental output.
>
> Patches 1-4 simply clean up the Emacs search code and could be pushed
> before the rest of the series.  Patch 5 switches to the JSON plist
> representation internally, but retains the text parser.  This requires
> some changes to the text parser to keep things working, but don't get
> too hung up on them since it's about to get replaced entirely.  Patch
> 6 adds a test.
>
> Finally, patches 7 and 8 are the real meat.  Patch 7 introduces a
> general incremental JSON parser.  For search, we could probably get
> away with a simpler, hacky approach, but an incremental JSON parser is
> the type of thing you only want to write once---hacky or not---and it
> seems like the type of thing that could be useful elsewhere, too.
> It's general enough to support things like incremental show buffer
> rendering.
>
> Patch 8 rewrites the search output parser to use the JSON format via
> this incremental parser.

Looks good, works fine, tests pass. 

I am having those patches applied in this copy of notmuch (emacs mua)
I am running and will continue to do so until new series arrives, this
will be pushed, or latest patch series go stale (which I hope doesn't
happen :)

+1

Tomi