Initially just set the working directory, to avoid (the implicit)
call-process crashing when the default-directory points to a
non-existent location.
Use of a macro here is over-engineering for this change, but the same
change needs to be applied to several other process creation
primitives.
This is a bit of a cheat, since the format does not actually
change. On the other hand it is fairly common to do something like
this to shared libary SONAMEs when the ABI changes in some subtle way.
It does rely on the format-version argument being early enough on the
command line to generate a sensible error message.
Users may type some text into the buffer on an address line, before
actually invoking address completion. We now use that text as the
initial input when we begin address completion.
Previously we did knowingly replace the actual initial input with some
completion candidate that happens to match. Which candidate is used is
essentially random, at least when the actual initial input is short.
As a result users very often had to begin completion by deleting the
less than helpful "initial input".
IMO Notmuch should not override the default completion mechanism by
default, at least not globally. But since users are already used to
this behavior it is probably too late to change it. Do the next best
thing and at least allow users to opt out.
We need to load `cl-lib' at run-time because we use more from it than
just macros. Never-the-less many, but not all libraries required it
only at compile-time, which we got away with because at least some
libraries already required it at run-time as well.
We use `cl-lib' and (currently to a lesser extend) `pcase' throughout
the code-base, which means that we should require these features in
most libraries.
In the past we tried to only require these features in just the
libraries that actually need them, without fully succeeding. We did
not succeed in doing so because that means we would have to check
every time that we use a function from these features whether they
are already being required in the current library.
An alternative would be to add the `require' forms at the top of every
library but that is a bit annoying too.
In order to make sure that these features are loaded when needed but
also to keep the noise down we only require them in "notmuch-lib.el",
which most other libraries require, and in most of the few libraries
that do not do so, namely "notmuch-draft.el", "notmuch-message.el" and
"notmuch-parser.el". ("coolj.el", "make-deps.el", various generated
libraries, and "notmuch-compat.el" are left touched.)
To some extend this is a personal preference, but the preference is
strongly dependent on whether one is used to a language that makes it
necessary to use variables like this.
This makes it perfectly clear that we are first getting and then using
a "foo":
(use-foo (get-foo))
Sure this has to be read "inside out", but that's something one better
gets used to quickly when dealing with lisp. I don't understand why
one would want to write this instead:
(let ((the-foo (get-foo)))
(use-foo the-foo))
Both `get-foo' and `use-foo' are named in a way that make it very
clear that we are dealing with a "foo". Storing the value in an
additional variable `the-foo' does not make this any more clear.
On the contrary I makes the reader wonder why the author choose to
use a variable. Is the value used more than once? Is the value
being retrieved in one context and then used in another (e.g. when
the current buffer changes)?
The previous commit switched to lexical-binding but without dealing
with the new warnings about unused lexical arguments and variables.
This commit deals with most of them, in most cases by either removing
leftover bindings that are actually unnecessary, or by marking certain
arguments as "known to be unused" by prefixing their names with "_".
In the case of the functions named `notmuch-show-insert-...' the
amount of silencing that is required is a bit extreme and we might
want to investigate if there is a better way.
In the case of `notmuch-mua-mail', ignoring CONTINUE means that we do
not fully follow the intended behavior described in `compose-mail's
doc-string.
Doing so causes many new compile warnings. Some of these warnings
concern genuine changes in behavior that have to be addressed right
away.
Many other warnings are due to unused variables. Nothing has changed
here, except that the byte-compiler can now detect these pre-existing
and harmless issues. We delay addressing these issues so that we can
focus on the important ones here.
A third group of warnings concern arguments that are not actually used
inside the function but which cannot be removed because the functions
signature is dictated by some outside convention. Silencing these
warning is also delayed until subsequent commits.
`outline-minor-mode' treats comments that begin with three or more
semicolons as headings. That makes it very convenient to navigate
code and to show/hide parts of a file.
Elips libraries typically have four top-level sections, e.g.:
;;; notmuch.el --- run notmuch within emacs...
;;; Commentary:...
;;; Code:...
;;; notmuch.el ends here
In this package many libraries lack a "Commentary:" section, which is
not optimal but okay for most libraries, except major entry points.
Depending on how one chooses to look at it, the "... ends here" line
is not really a heading that begins a section, because it should never
have a "section" body (after all it marks eof).
If the file is rather short, then I left "Code:" as the only section
that contains code. Otherwise I split the file into multiple sibling
sections. The "Code:" section continues to contain `require' and
`declare-function' forms and other such "front matter".
If and only if I have split the code into multiple sections anyway,
then I also added an additional section named just "_" before the
`provide' form and shortly before the "...end here" line. This
section could also be called "Back matter", but I feel it would be
distracting to be that explicit about it. (The IMO unnecessary but
unfortunately still obligatory "... ends here" line is already
distracting enough as far as I am concerned.)
Before this commit some libraries already uses section headings, some
of them consistently. When a library already had some headings, then
this commit often sticks to that style, even at the cost inconsistent
styling across all libraries.
A very limited number of variable and function definitions have to be
moved around because they would otherwise end up in sections they do
not belong into.
Sections, including but not limited to their heading, can and should
be further improved in the future.
- The first sentence should fit on the first line in full. This is
even the case when that causes the line to get a bit long. If it
gets very long, then it should be made shorter.
- Even even the second sentence would fit on the first line, if it
just provides some details, then it shouldn't be done.
- Symbols are quoted like `so'.
- There is no clear rule on how to (not) quote non-atomic
s-expressions, but quoting like '(this) is definitely weird.
- It is a good idea to remember that \" becomes " and to take
that in mind when adjusting the automatic filling by hand.
- Use the imperative form.
- Arguments are written in all uppercase.
It's a bit weird to avoid having to write the "(setq ... )" more than
once, just because we can. In a language that uses '=' for the same
purpose we also happily use that once per assignment.
While there are no benefit to using just one 'setq' there are some
drawbacks. It is not always clear on first what is a key and what a
value and as a result it is easy to make a mistake. Also it becomes
harder to comment out just one assignment.
Most people who write lots of lisp tend to only sparsely use empty
"separator" lines within forms. In lisp they feel unnecessary and
since most files stick to this convention we get a bit confused
when there are extra empty lines. It feels like the s-expressions
are falling into pieces.
All of this is especially true between a function's doc-string and
body because the doc-string is colored differently, which visually
already separates it quite sufficiently from the code that follows.
Fixed emacs docstrings to be consistent. No functional change.
- removed some (accidental) indentation
- removed some trailing newlines
- added trailing periods where missing (some exclusions)
Quoting from the elisp reference:
For other types (e.g., lists, vectors, strings), two arguments
with the same contents or elements are not necessarily ‘eq’ to
each other.
Thanks to "Attic Hermit" for the fix.
We now have several customizable options for address completion. There
is a customize group notmuch-address but it only contains one of these
options. Add all the others, and make it part of the notmuch customize
group.
This allows the user to save the address hash so that it is much
faster for the first completion after a restart. This defaults to off
as there are privacy implications to saving this information.
The code tries hard to avoid overwriting the wrong file. It also notes
if changes have been made to any of the relevant user settings, so
that the user does not get surprising results (i.e., outdated options
being used). Finally it stores some version information so that is
easy for us to update the format of the save file.
This makes the code access notmuch-address-full-harvest-finished via a
helper function, notmuch-address--harvest-ready. Later we will use
this to check whether we can load the harvest instead of regenerating
it.
Some of the recent changes to the emacs code have used functions
introduced in emacs 24. The functions used are read-char-choice and
setq-local. This changeset adds a file notmuch-compat.el which
contains compatibility functions so that it should work on emacs
23.
Note, since these functions are taken almost unchanged from the emacs
source they are copyright the Free Software Foundation, and the header
in the file reflects that.
This hook can be used to update the message based on the results of
address completion. For example using message-templ or gnus-alias to set
the From address based on the To address just completed.
The post-completion command is added to the notmuch-company backend to
ensure that the hook is also called company completion is started
without going through notmuch-address-expand-name. See the docstring of
`company-backends' for more information.
The current code for address completion takes the list of possible
completions (whether generated internally or externally), makes the
first match the initial value for the completion, and puts all the
others (but not the first match) into the possible completions.
This has the nice effect that the <down> key takes you immediately to
the next completion (whereas if the first match were included in the
possible completions it would take you to the first match
again).
However, it has two side effects. First, once you have completed to
the full match you find it says and try completing again you get told
"no match" not "sole completion". Secondly, if you delete some of the
text and try completing you don't get the first match as an option.
This tries to get round most of these problems by including the full
list of possible completions, but with the first match moved to the
very end of the list.
This commit makes two changes. The first allows the user to override
an external completion method with the internal notmuch address based
completion for an individual buffer.
Secondly, if the user has company-mode enabled then it sets up company
mode (based on internal completion) but disables the automatic timeout
completion -- the user can still activate it in when desired with
standard company commands such as company-complete.
This commit lets the user customize the address completion. It makes
two changes.
The first change controls whether to build the address completion list
based on messages you have sent or you have received (the latter is
much faster).
The second change add a possible filter query to limit the messages
used -- for example, setting this to date:1y.. would limit the
address completions to addresses used in the last year. This speeds up
the address harvest and may also make the search less cluttered as old
addresses may well no longer be valid.
Many of the external links found in the notmuch source can be resolved
using https instead of http. This changeset addresses as many as i
could find, without touching the e-mail corpus or expected outputs
found in tests.
The new function notmuch-show-message-resend re-sends
message to new recipients using #'message-resend.
Recipients are read from minibuffer as a comma-separated
string (with some keyboard support including tab completion).
Final confirmation before sending is asked.
When company-mode is available (Emacs >= 24), address completion
candidates are shown in a nice popup box. This is triggered either by
pressing TAB or by waiting a while during typing an address. The
completion is based entirely on the asynchronous address harvesting
from notmuch-address.el so the GUI is theoretically not blocked for
long time.
The completion works similarly as the TAB-initiated completion from
notmuch-address.el, i.e. quick harvest based on user input is executed
first and only after full harvesting is finished, in-memory cached data
is used.
[Improved by David Bremner]
Currently, notmuch has an address completion mechanism that requires
external command to provide completion candidates. This commit adds a
completion mechanism inspired by https://github.com/tjim/nevermore,
which is implemented in Emacs lisp only.
The preexisting address completion mechanism, activated by pressing
TAB on To/Cc lines, is extended to use the new mechanism when
notmuch-address-command to 'internal, which is the new default.
The core of the new mechanism is the function notmuch-address-harvest,
which collects the completion candidates from the notmuch database and
stores them in notmuch-address-completions variable. The address
harvesting can run either synchronously (same as with the previous
mechanism) or asynchronously. When the user presses TAB for the first
time, synchronous harvesting limited to user entered text is performed.
If the entered text is reasonably long, this operation is relatively
fast. Then, asynchronous harvesting over the full database is triggered.
This operation may take long time (minutes on rotating disk). After it
finishes, no harvesting is normally performed again and subsequent
completion requests use the harvested data cached in memory. Completion
cache is updated after 24 hours.
Note that this commit restores (different) completion functionality for
users when the user used external command named "notmuch-addresses",
i.e. the old default. The result will be that the user will use
the new mechanism instead of this command. I believe that many users may
not even recognize this because the new mechanism works the same as
http://commonmeasure.org/~jkr/git/notmuch_addresses.git and perhaps also
as other commands suggested at
http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#address_completion.
[This feature was significantly improved by David Bremner and Mark Walters]
This allows e.g. Gnus users to load this file without changing
message-mode behaviour.
This will disable completion for those that did not customize the
variable but relied on the existence of a file named "notmuch-addresses"
in their path. In the next commit the default behaviour will change to
use a "workalike" internal completion mechanism.
The TAB-initiated address completion generates completion candidates
synchronously, blocking the UI. Since this can take long time, it is
better to let the use know what's happening.
Added a customizable variable notmuch-address-selection-function
and the function with the same name to provide a way for user to
change the function called to do address selection.
By default the functionality is exactly the same as it has been so
far; completing-read is called with the same parameters as before.
Setting equivalent lambda expression in place of using
notmuch-address-selection-function function is done as follows:
(setq notmuch-address-selection-function
(lambda (prompt collection initial-input)
(completing-read prompt collection nil nil initial-input)))
For example drop-in replacement with ido-completing-read can be done
easily as an one alternative to the default.
From a show buffer, notmuch-bbdb/snarf-from imports the sender into
bbdb. notmuch-bbdb/snarf-to imports all recipients. Newly imported
contacts are reported in the minibuffer / Messages buffer.
Both functions use the BBDB parser to recognize email address formats.
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.
If the address matching function generates no matches, don't prompt
the user to choose between them (!). Instead, generate a message to
report that there were no matches.
When completing an address, tell the user how many addresses in the
database matched the query.
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: Removed a stray numeric
literal that was causing a compiler warning.
