[PATCH v4] Add notmuch-show--build-queries.

Mark Walters markwalters1009 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 13:19:33 PDT 2016


On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Matt Armstrong <marmstrong at google.com> wrote:
> notmuch-show--build-buffer now queries a list of queries built by the
> former.  This simplifies the logic.  It also provides an easy place to
> experiment with alternate sets of queries for given notmuch-show-*
> variables (e.g. users can use advice-add to do so in a surgical way).
> ---

This version looks good to me +1

Best wishes

Mark


>  emacs/notmuch-show.el | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
> index 16ff45a..fcf7e6e 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
> @@ -1263,6 +1263,18 @@ matched."
>  	(message "No messages matched the query!")
>  	nil))))
>  
> +(defun notmuch-show--build-queries (thread context)
> +  "Return a list of queries to try for this search.
> +
> +THREAD and CONTEXT are both strings, though CONTEXT may be nil.
> +When CONTEXT is not nil, the first query is the conjunction of it
> +and THREAD.  The next query is THREAD alone, and serves as a
> +fallback if the prior matches no messages."
> +  (let (queries)
> +    (push (list thread) queries)
> +    (if context (push (list thread "and (" context ")") queries))
> +    queries))
> +
>  (defun notmuch-show--build-buffer (&optional state)
>    "Display messages matching the current buffer context.
>  
> @@ -1270,25 +1282,20 @@ Apply the previously saved STATE if supplied, otherwise show the
>  first relevant message.
>  
>  If no messages match the query return NIL."
> -  (let* ((basic-args (list notmuch-show-thread-id))
> -	 (args (if notmuch-show-query-context
> -		   (append (list "\'") basic-args
> -			   (list "and (" notmuch-show-query-context ")\'"))
> -		 (append (list "\'") basic-args (list "\'"))))
> -	 (cli-args (cons "--exclude=false"
> +  (let* ((cli-args (cons "--exclude=false"
>  			 (when notmuch-show-elide-non-matching-messages
>  			   (list "--entire-thread=false"))))
> -
> -	 (forest (or (notmuch-query-get-threads (append cli-args args))
> -		     ;; If a query context reduced the number of
> -		     ;; results to zero, try again without it.
> -		     (and notmuch-show-query-context
> -			  (notmuch-query-get-threads (append cli-args basic-args)))))
> -
> +	 (queries (notmuch-show--build-queries
> +		   notmuch-show-thread-id notmuch-show-query-context))
> +	 (forest nil)
>  	 ;; Must be reset every time we are going to start inserting
>  	 ;; messages into the buffer.
>  	 (notmuch-show-previous-subject ""))
> -
> +    ;; Use results from the first query that returns some.
> +    (while (and (not forest) queries)
> +      (setq forest (notmuch-query-get-threads
> +		    (append cli-args (list "'") (car queries) (list "'"))))
> +      (setq queries (cdr queries)))
>      (when forest
>        (notmuch-show-insert-forest forest)
>  
> -- 
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>
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