[PATCH 00/11] Fix search tagging races

[Mark Walters]

Hello

It's great that this might finally get done. But there is one problem
currently.

If you open a large search buffer and then do *-<tab> it will die as the
tagging routine runs notmuch search to find a completion-list for the
tag. (it runs notmuch search --output=tags <query>)

We could just return all tags in this case. Or we could do something
like the series
id:1354263691-19715-1-git-send-email-markwalters1009 at gmail.com
which makes completion happen based on the tags visible to the user, not
the tags actually in the database.

There is also a little discussion of this in my earlier attempt at
fixing this: eg id:87mwy4smad.fsf at qmul.ac.uk

Best wishes

Mark

On Mon, 07 Oct 2013, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> I was hacking on undo support for notmuch-emacs and sort of
> accidentally wrote this instead.  This series fixes a set of
> well-known races where tagging from search-mode unexpectedly affects
> messages that arrived after the search was performed (and hence the
> user doesn't know they're tagging them).  We've attacked this a few
> times before, but have always run up against something that was
> missing.  It turns out the pieces are finally all in place.
>
> The first five patches just clean various things up in preparation.
> Patches 6 and 7 add support for tagging large queries, which would
> otherwise become a problem when later patches start using explicit
> message ID-based queries for tagging.  The remaining four patches
> actually fix the search tagging races using explicit message ID-based
> queries.
>
> It's a fairly long series, but none of the patches are very big.
>
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