[PATCH v2] emacs: notmuch search bugfix

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Tue Aug 7 23:01:10 PDT 2012


On Tue, Aug 07 2012, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The recent change to use json for notmuch-search.el introduced a bug
> in the code for keeping position on refresh. The problem is a
> comparison between (plist-get result :thread) and a thread-id returned
> by notmuch-search-find-thread-id: the latter is prefixed with
> "thread:"
>
> We fix this by adding an option to notmuch-search-find-thread-id to
> return the bare thread-id. It appears that notmuch-search-refresh-view
> is the only caller of notmuch-search that supplies a thread-id so this
> change should be safe (but could theoretically break users .emacs
> functions).
> ---

LGTM.

Tomi

>
> I think this implements all of Austin's suggestions, and it adds a short
> remark to NEWS (since in unlikely cases it could break users' functions)
> and updates the docstring for notmuch-search. 
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
>
>  NEWS             |    3 +++
>  emacs/notmuch.el |   12 +++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 761b2c1..9916c91 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ user-specified formatting
>    you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
>    format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
>  
> +The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
> +now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
> +
>  Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
>  ===========================
>  
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
> index d2d82a9..7b61e9b 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
> @@ -475,10 +475,12 @@ BEG."
>  	(push (plist-get (notmuch-search-get-result pos) property) output)))
>      output))
>  
> -(defun notmuch-search-find-thread-id ()
> -  "Return the thread for the current thread"
> +(defun notmuch-search-find-thread-id (&optional bare)
> +  "Return the thread for the current thread
> +
> +If BARE is set then do not prefix with \"thread:\""
>    (let ((thread (plist-get (notmuch-search-get-result) :thread)))
> -    (when thread (concat "thread:" thread))))
> +    (when thread (concat (unless bare "thread:") thread))))
>  
>  (defun notmuch-search-find-thread-id-region (beg end)
>    "Return a list of threads for the current region"
> @@ -936,7 +938,7 @@ If `query' is nil, it is read interactively from the minibuffer.
>  Other optional parameters are used as follows:
>  
>    oldest-first: A Boolean controlling the sort order of returned threads
> -  target-thread: A thread ID (with the thread: prefix) that will be made
> +  target-thread: A thread ID (without the thread: prefix) that will be made
>                   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."
> @@ -993,7 +995,7 @@ same relative position within the new buffer."
>    (interactive)
>    (let ((target-line (line-number-at-pos))
>  	(oldest-first notmuch-search-oldest-first)
> -	(target-thread (notmuch-search-find-thread-id))
> +	(target-thread (notmuch-search-find-thread-id 'bare))
>  	(query notmuch-search-query-string)
>  	(continuation notmuch-search-continuation))
>      (notmuch-kill-this-buffer)
> -- 
> 1.7.9.1
>
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