Previously, tag-based search result highlighting was done by creating
an overlay over each search result. However, overlays have annoying
front- and rear-advancement semantics that make it difficult to
manipulate text at their boundaries, which the next patch will do.
They also have performance problems (creating an overlay is linear in
the number of overlays between point and the new overlay, making
highlighting a search buffer quadratic in the number of results).
Text properties have neither problem. However, text properties make
it more difficult to apply multiple faces since, unlike with overlays,
a given character can only have a single 'face text property. Hence,
we introduce a utility function that combines faces into any existing
'face text properties.
Using this utility function, it's straightforward to apply all of the
appropriate tag faces in notmuch-search-color-line.
The JSON format eliminates the complex escaping issues that have
plagued the text search format. This uses the incremental JSON parser
so that, like the text parser, it can output search results
incrementally.
This slows down the parser by about ~4X, but puts us in a good
position to optimize either by improving the JSON parser (evidence
suggests this can reduce the overhead to ~40% over the text format) or
by switching to S-expressions (evidence suggests this will more than
double performance over the text parser). [1]
This also fixes the incremental search parsing test.
This has one minor side-effect on search result formatting.
Previously, the date field was always padded to a fixed width of 12
characters because of how the text parser's regexp was written. The
JSON format doesn't do this. We could pad it out in Emacs before
formatting it, but, since all of the other fields are variable width,
we instead fix notmuch-search-result-format to take the variable-width
field and pad it out. For users who have customized this variable,
we'll mention in the NEWS how to fix this slight format change.
[1] id:"20110720205007.GB21316@mit.edu"
Rather than passing lots of arguments and then further passing those
to `notmuch-search-insert-field', pass a plist containing all of the
search result information. This plist is compatible with the JSON
format search results.
This is a simpler place to do this, since we can avoid any point
motion and hence any save-excursions in
`notmuch-search-process-filter', which in turn lets us put all of the
search-target logic outside of any save-excursions.
`notmuch-search-show-{result,error}' are now responsible for their own
point motion.
`notmuch-search-process-filter' could use some reindentation after
this, but we're about to rewrite it entirely, so we won't bother.
This removes the last bit of direct output from the parsing function.
With the parser now responsible solely for parsing, we can swap it out
for another parser.
Previously, much of the display of search lines was done in the same
function that parsed the CLI's output. Now the parsing function only
parses, and notmuch-search-show-result fully inserts the search result
in the search buffer.
The main change here is to modify argument parsing so as to not force
tag-changes to be a list, and to let notmuch-tag handle prompting the
user when required. doc strings are also updated and cleaned up.
Tagging functions are used in notmuch.el, notmuch-show.el, and
notmuch-message.el. There are enough common functions for tagging
that it makes sense to put them all in their own library.
No code is modified, just moved around.
A previous patch [0] replaced blank subject lines with '[No Subject]'
in search and show mode. Apparently this was needed to circumvent
some bug in the printing code, but there was no need for it search or
show, and it is definitely not desirable, so we undo it here (a revert
is no longer feasible). We should not be modifying strings in the
original message without good reason, or without a clear indication
that we are doing so, neither of which apply in this case. For
further discussion see [0].
[0] id:"1327918561-16245-3-git-send-email-dme@dme.org"
No functional change here. The help message previously referred to
the "delete" tag, but "deleted" is now preferred, so hopefully this
will reduce any potential confusion.
The new message exclude functionality will hide tags that only exist
on excluded messages. However, one might very well want to manually
modify excluded tags. This makes sure tags from excluded messages are
always available in tab completion.
In X, Emacs distinguishes the tab key, which produces a 'tab event;
from C-i, which produces a ?\t event. However, in a terminal, these
are indistinguishable and only produce a ?\t event. In order to
simplify things, Emacs automatically translates from 'tab to ?\t (see
"Function key translations" in M-x describe-bindings), so functions
only need to be bound to ?\t to work in all situations.
Previously, the search tab completion code usedq (kbd "<tab>"), which
produced the event sequence [tab], which only matched the 'tab event
and hence only worked in X. This patch changes it to (kbd "TAB"),
which matches the general ?\t event and works in all situations.
This is a small change to make notmuch.el ignore excluded matches. In
the future it could do something better like add a button for
rerunning the search with the excludes (particularly if nothing
matches with the excludes) or having them invisible and allowing the
visibility to be toggled.
When notmuch-search-line-faces is used to set background color in search
results, the highlight of the current line is not always displayed
correctly. This patch fixes that by increasing the priority property of
the highlight overlay.
Re-work the existing crypto switch toggle to be based on a persistant
buffer-local variable.
To allow this, modify `notmuch-show-refresh-view' to erase and re-draw
in the current buffer rather than killing the current buffer and
creating a new one. (This will also allow more per-buffer behaviour in
future patches.)
Add a binding ('$') to toggle crypto processing of the current buffer
and remove the prefix argument approach that achieves a similar
result.
Add default value to notmuch-search-line-faces to show "unread"
messages in bold, and "flagged" messages in blue, to have some visual
indication of important messages in search results. This should be
helpful for new users.
"unread" tag is quite obvious, and handled specially both in the lib
and emacs ui. "flagged" is synced to maildir F flag in the lib. If one
syncs the maildir to IMAP, this also translates to corresponding IMAP
flag. (This is "starred" in GMail and Android.)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
This makes the argument names more consistent and clear. The
following functions changed: `notmuch-tag',
`notmuch-search-tag-thread', `notmuch-search-tag-region' and
`notmuch-search-tag-all'.
Since `notmuch-tag' is a non-interactive function and hence is meant
to be invoked programmatically, it should accept zero tags. Also, the
tagging operations (bound to "*", "+", "-") would accept empty input
without an error.
The tag syntax check in `notmuch-tag' function was too strict and did
not allow nmbug tags with "::". Since the check is done for all
tagging operations in Emacs UI, this basically means that no nmbug
tags can be changed. The patch relaxes the tag syntax check to allow
any tag names that do not include whitespace characters.
Some tag-related operations accept a single tag without prefix
(`notmuch-select-tag-with-completion'), others accept multiple tags
prefixed with '+' or '-' (`notmuch-read-tag-changes'). Before the
change, both functions used a single default minibuffer history. This
is inconvenient because you have to skip options with incompatible
format when going through the history. The patch adds separate
history lists for the two functions. Note that functions that accept
the same input format (e.g. "+", "-", "*") share the history list as
before.
Before the change, "+" and "-" tagging operations in notmuch-search
view accepted only a single tag. The patch makes them use the
recently added `notmuch-read-tag-changes' function (renamed
`notmuch-select-tags-with-completion'), which allows to enter multiple
tags with "+" and "-" prefixes. So after the change, "+" and "-"
bindings in notmuch-search view allow to both add and remove multiple
tags. The only difference between "+" and "-" is the minibuffer
initial input ("+" and "-" respectively).
Before the change, tag format validation was done in
`notmuch-search-operate-all' function only. The patch moves it down
to `notmuch-tag', so that all users of that function get input
validation.
There are two ways to do search in Emacs UI: search widget in
notmuch-hello buffer and `notmuch-search' function bound to "s".
Before the change, these search mechanisms used different history
lists. The patch makes notmuch-hello search use the same history list
as `notmuch-search' function.
To allow for expansion whilst keeping everything tidy and organized,
move all defcustom/defface variables to the following subgroups,
defined in notmuch-lib.el:
- Hello
- Search
- Show
- Send
- Crypto
- Hooks
- External Commands
- Appearance
As an added benefit, defcustom keyword args are now consistently
ordered as they appear @ defcustom's docstring (OCD much?).
Proper defgroup docstrings and various other improvements
by courtesy of Austin Clements.
As suggested by j4ni in #notmuch, rename
`notmuch-jump-to-recent-buffer' as `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers' and
have it behave accordingly.
Consider `message-mode' buffers to be of interest.
Provide reply to sender counterparts to the search and show reply
functions. Add key binding 'R' to reply to sender, while keeping 'r' as
reply to all, both in search and show views.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
`notmuch-hello-mode' inherits the keymap for widgets, which confused
`notmuch-substitute-command-keys'. Fix the confusion.
Simplify `notmuch-substitute-command-keys' a little to make it easier
to read.
With the default configuration ('space' moves through the messages
matching the search and back to the results index at the end) it's
unnecessary to signal an error when the last message has been read, as
this is the common case.
Moreover, it's very annoying when `debug-on-error' is t.
Examples in documentation for `notmuch-search-line-faces' had an extra
quote, e.g.:
'(\"unread\" . '(:foreground \"green\"))
Which resulted in values like:
(\"unread\" quote (:foreground \"green\"))
And tons of "Invalid face reference: quote" errors in the messages
buffer.
From a Carl Worth idea: add a function which will select the most
recently used notmuch buffer (search, show or hello). If no recent
buffer is found, run `notmuch'.
It is expected that the user will global bind this command to a key
sequence.
Support nil value for notmuch-poll-script to run "notmuch new" instead of
an external script, and make this the new default. "notmuch new" is run
using the configured notmuch-command.
This allows taking better advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs
without intermediate scripts.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
The process-lines function calls the notmuch binary. The location of
the binary may have been customized by the user, so it is better to
use the customized location rather than allowing the process-lines
function to search the user's PATH for the binary.
