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From: "Carl Worth" <cworth@cworth.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:31:23 -0800
Subject: [notmuch] [PATCH] Error out if no query is supplied to search
instead of going into an infinite loop
In-Reply-To: <cf0c4d610911171623q3e27a0adx802e47039b57604b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cf0c4d610911171623q3e27a0adx802e47039b57604b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <877htoqdbo.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:53 -0800, Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry at gmail.com> wrote:
> In this case error out when no query is supplied. There seems to be an
> infinite-loop casued by i think notmuch_query_search_threads having
> an exception:
> A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> AND <expression>
> A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> AND <expression>
> A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> AND <expression>
>
> I'll look into that bug specifically a bit later.
>
> It might be better to do a usage instead of just throwing an error here?
Definitely.
Priit Laes reported the same thing in IRC and I've just committed a
patch to give a nice error message:
$ ./notmuch search
Error: notmuch search requires at least one search term.
Thanks for the report!
-Carl