emacs: Use notmuch tag --batch for large tag queries

(Unfortunately, it's difficult to first demonstrate this problem with
a known-broken test because modern Linux kernels have argument length
limits in the megabytes, which makes Emacs really slow!)
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Austin Clements 2013-10-24 11:19:07 -04:00 committed by David Bremner
parent 662e097984
commit 730b8f61e0
3 changed files with 29 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -355,6 +355,14 @@ user-friendly queries."
"Return a query that matches the message with id ID."
(concat "id:" (notmuch-escape-boolean-term id)))
(defun notmuch-hex-encode (str)
"Hex-encode STR (e.g., as used by batch tagging).
This replaces spaces, percents, and double quotes in STR with
%NN where NN is the hexadecimal value of the character."
(replace-regexp-in-string
"[ %\"]" (lambda (match) (format "%%%02x" (aref match 0))) str))
;;
(defun notmuch-common-do-stash (text)

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@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ from TAGS if present."
(error "Changed tag must be of the form `+this_tag' or `-that_tag'")))))
(sort result-tags 'string<)))
(defconst notmuch-tag-argument-limit 1000
"Use batch tagging if the tagging query is longer than this.
This limits the length of arguments passed to the notmuch CLI to
avoid system argument length limits and performance problems.")
(defun notmuch-tag (query tag-changes)
"Add/remove tags in TAG-CHANGES to messages matching QUERY.
@ -279,8 +285,13 @@ notmuch-after-tag-hook will be run."
tag-changes)
(unless (null tag-changes)
(run-hooks 'notmuch-before-tag-hook)
(apply 'notmuch-call-notmuch-process "tag"
(append tag-changes (list "--" query)))
(if (<= (length query) notmuch-tag-argument-limit)
(apply 'notmuch-call-notmuch-process "tag"
(append tag-changes (list "--" query)))
;; Use batch tag mode to avoid argument length limitations
(let ((batch-op (concat (mapconcat #'notmuch-hex-encode tag-changes " ")
" -- " query)))
(notmuch-call-notmuch-process :stdin-string batch-op "tag" "--batch")))
(run-hooks 'notmuch-after-tag-hook)))
(defun notmuch-tag-change-list (tags &optional reverse)

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@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ test_emacs "(notmuch-search \"$os_x_darwin_thread\")
output=$(notmuch search $os_x_darwin_thread | notmuch_search_sanitize)
test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX 2009-11-18 [4/4] Jjgod Jiang, Alexander Botero-Lowry; [notmuch] Mac OS X/Darwin compatibility issues (inbox unread)"
test_begin_subtest "Add tag (large query)"
# We use a long query to force us into batch mode and use a funny tag
# that requires escaping for batch tagging.
test_emacs "(notmuch-tag (concat \"$os_x_darwin_thread\" \" or \" (make-string notmuch-tag-argument-limit ?x)) (list \"+tag-from-%-large-query\"))"
output=$(notmuch search $os_x_darwin_thread | notmuch_search_sanitize)
test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX 2009-11-18 [4/4] Jjgod Jiang, Alexander Botero-Lowry; [notmuch] Mac OS X/Darwin compatibility issues (inbox tag-from-%-large-query unread)"
notmuch tag -tag-from-%-large-query $os_x_darwin_thread
test_begin_subtest "notmuch-show: add single tag to single message"
test_emacs "(notmuch-show \"$os_x_darwin_thread\")
(execute-kbd-macro \"+tag-from-show-view\")"