Previously we globally modified these variables, which tended to cause
problems for people using message-mode, but not notmuch-mua-mail, to
send mail.
User visible changes:
- Calling notmuch-fcc-header-setup is no longer optional. OTOH, it
seems to do the right thing if notmuch-fcc-dirs is set to nil.
- The Fcc header is visible during message composition
- The name in the mode line is changed, and no longer matches exactly
the menu label.
- Previously notmuch-mua-send-and-exit was never called. Either we
misunderstood define-mail-user-agent, or it had a bug. So there was
no difference if the user called message-send-and-exit directly. Now
there will be.
- User bindings to C-c C-c and C-c C-s in message-mode-map are
overridden. The user can override them in notmuch-message-mode-map,
but then they're on their own for Fcc handling.
This is to provide a clean way of overriding e.g. keybindings when
sending mail from notmuch.
This is needed in particular to allow somewhere to dynamically bind
certain message-mode variables which are not respected when buffer-local. See e.g.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21174
Now that we have `notmuch-emacs-version' defined in notmuch emacs MUA
use that as a part of User-Agent: header to provide more accurate
version information when sending emails.
In case some incomplete installation of notmuch emacs MUA is used and
`notmuch-emacs-version' is defined as "unknown" then fall back to ask
version info from cli (as it used to be before this commit).
Requiring notmuch-version[.elc] and if that is missing setting
"fallback" notmuch-emacs-version (to "unknown") was moved from
notmuch.el to notmuch-lib.el as notmuch-mua.el (which provides
User-Agent: information) require's the latter.
Show the current thread with a different filter (i.e., open messages
in the thread matching the new query).
Bound to 'l' for "limit".
Note that it is not the same as filter in search mode as it replaces
the existing query rather than ANDing with it (but it does keep the
thread-id part of the query).
Separate out a notmuch-show-goto-msg-id sub-function from
notmuch-show-apply-state. There should be no functional change but the
next patch will call the new function.
The second argument to notmuch-tag is now called tag-changes, but the
documentation for notmuch-before-tag-hook and notmuch-after-tag-hook
still used the old argument name `tags'. This resulted in broken hooks
when following the documentation.
The mark read code for tree mode did not get updated in the recent
changes. This updates it to match. Since the user can customize the
mark read logic we just call the show logic in the message pane.
The notmuch-search-terms man page states that "tag:<tag>" is equivalent
to "is:<tag>". Completion for "is:<tag>" style searches is now supported
in the Emacs interface.
Amended by David Bremner: combine lexical-let and let into
lexical-let*
notmuch-show can be slow displaying large attachments so hide them by
default. The default maximum size is 10000 bytes/characters but it is
customizable.
Note that notmuch-show-insert-bodypart is also called from the reply
code so we need to be a little careful.
Besides generally cleaning up the code and separating the general
content ID handling from the w3m-specific code, this fixes several
problems.
Foremost is that, previously, the code roughly assumed that referenced
parts would be in the same multipart/related as the reference.
According to RFC 2392, nothing could be further from the truth:
content IDs are supposed to be globally unique and globally
addressable. This is nonsense, but this patch at least fixes things
so content IDs can be anywhere in the same message.
As a side-effect of the above, this handles multipart/alternate
content-IDs more in line with RFC 2046 section 5.1.2 (not that I've
ever seen this in the wild). This also properly URL-decodes cid:
URLs, as per RFC 2392 (the previous code did not), and applies crypto
settings from the show buffer (the previous code used the global
crypto settings).
Unibyte strings are meant for representing binary data. In practice,
using unibyte versus multibyte strings affects *almost* nothing. It
does happen to matter if we use the binary data in an image descriptor
(which is, helpfully, not documented anywhere and getting it wrong
results in opaque errors like "Not a PNG image: <giant binary spew
that is, in fact, a PNG image>").
`notmuch-get-bodypart-content' could do two very different things,
depending on conditions: for text/* parts other than text/html, it
would return the part content as a multibyte Lisp string *after*
charset conversion, while for other parts (including text/html), it
would return binary part content without charset conversion.
This commit completes the split of `notmuch-get-bodypart-content' into
two different and explicit APIs: `notmuch-get-bodypart-binary' and
`notmuch-get-bodypart-text'. It updates all callers to use one or the
other depending on what's appropriate.
The new function, `notmuch-get-bodypart-binary', replaces
`notmuch-get-bodypart-internal'. Whereas the old function was really
meant for internal use in `notmuch-get-bodypart-content', it was used
in a few other places. Since the difference between
`notmuch-get-bodypart-content' and `notmuch-get-bodypart-internal' was
unclear, these other uses were always confusing and potentially
inconsistent. The new call clearly requests the part as undecoded
binary.
This is step 1 of 2 in separating `notmuch-get-bodypart-content' into
two APIs for retrieving either undecoded binary or decoded text.
We set header-line-format to the message subject, but if the subject
contains percents, the next character is interpreted as a formatting
control, which is not desired.
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.
Make a new customizable variable instead of relying on
message-cite-function because the default for the latter changed
between emacs releases.
The defcustom is borrowed from the message.el source, with minor
modifications.
The faces used when washing messages should be notmuch specific and
inherit from the underlying emacs face rather than using it
directly. This allows the washed face to be modified without requiring
the modification of the underlying face.
`with-current-notmuch-show-message' applies a `no-conversion' coding
system when reading a raw message from notmuch. That coding system
should _not_ be applied when the body of the macro is evaluated, as it
can cause file operations used during that evaluation to incorrectly
apply the `no-conversion' coding system.
This was discovered when a user's .signature file contained non-ASCII
characters. When a message is forwarded, the `no-conversion' coding
system was applied to the reading of the .signature file, resulting in
raw rather than UTF-8 interpretation of the data.
notmuch-jump uses window-body-width which is not defined in emacs
23. To get around this it does
(unless (fboundp 'window-body-width)
;; Compatibility for Emacs pre-24
(defalias 'window-body-width 'window-width))
This makes sure window-body-width is defined and all should be
well. But it seems that the byte compiler does not realise that this
guarantees that window-body-width will be defined and so, when
compiling with emacs 23, it gives an error
In end of data:
notmuch-jump.el:172:1:Warning: the function `window-body-width' is not known to be defined.
Domo and I came to following on irc: wrap the (unless (fboundp ...))
inside eval-and-compile which ensures that both the test and the
defalias (if needed) happen at both compile and load time. This fixes
the warning.
default-value needs its argument to be quoted.
Slightly strangely default-value of 't or nil is 't or nil
respectively so the code
(default-value notmuch-search-oldest-first)
just gives the current value of notmuch-search-oldest-first rather
than intended default-value of this variable.
The symptom is that if you are in a search buffer and use notmuch jump
to run a saved search which does not have an explicitly set sort order
then the sort order of the saved-search is inherited from the current
search buffer rather than being the default search order.
Thanks to Jani for finding the bug.
Fix byte compiler warning "Warning: the function `window-body-width'
is not known to be defined." by moving our compatibility wrapper
before its use and simplify the definition to a defalias for the old
name of the function.
This should help new users off to a better start with the addition of
more sensible saved searches and default shortcut keys. Most existing
users have probably customized this variable and won't be affected.
This introduces notmuch-jump, which is like a user-friendly,
user-configurable global prefix map for saved searches. This provides
a non-modal and much faster way to access saved searches than
notmuch-hello.
A user configures shortcut keys in notmuch-saved-searches, which are
immediately accessible from anywhere in Notmuch under the "j" key (for
"jump"). When the user hits "j", the minibuffer immediately shows a
helpful table of bindings reminiscent of a completions buffer.
This code is a combination of work from myself (originally,
"notmuch-go"), David Edmondson, and modifications from Mark Walters.
notmuch-poll-script has long since been deprecated in favor of
post-new hooks, but this wasn't obvious from the documentation.
Update the documentation to make this clear. Since
notmuch-poll-script could, to some extend, be used to control the path
of the notmuch binary and that use is now clearly discouraged, promote
notmuch-command to a real defcustom instead of just a variable.
tree overrides notmuch-show-get-prop so that it can use many of the
utility function directly. Now that tree is in mainline the version
from tree can be moved to show and the original overridden show
version dropped.
This adds the current query as a "default value" to
notmuch-read-qeury. The default value is available via a down-arrow as
opposed to history which is available from the up arrow.
Note if a user presses return in the minibuffer this value is not
returned.
The implementation is simple but notmuch-read-query could be called
via notmuch-search/notmuch-tree etc from any buffer so it makes sense
to put the decision of how to extract the current query in
notmuch-read-query rather than in each of the callers.
notmuch-search-archive-thread moves to the next line after tagging. In
the normal case this makes sense, but if the region is active, it tags
the whole region and then it doesn't really. Thus only move to the
next line if region is not active.
Add a function for updating seen messages to the
post-command-hook. This function calls a customizable (by eg
defcustom) function with parameters the start and end of the current
window and that function can decide what to mark read based on that
and the current point.
Since this is in the post-command-hook it should get called after most
user actions (exceptions include user resizing the window) so it
should be possible to make sure the seen status gets updated whether
the user uses notmuch commands like next-message or normal emacs
commands like scroll-up.
It removes all of the old mark read/seen points but introduces a
simple example function that just marks the current message read if it
is open. This function has one small subtlety: it makes sure it
doesn't mark the same message read twice (in the same instance of the
same buffer); otherwise the post-command-hook makes it impossible for
a user to manually mark a message unread.
This fixes the current bugs (imo) that closed messages can be marked
read, and that opening a closed message does not mark it read.
Another advantage of using the post-command-hook any programmatic use
with point passing through a message will not mark it read.
When the user begins forwarding a message, the resulting composition
buffer should not be marked as modified, in order that it can
immediately be killed without prompting.
`make install-emacs` will copy $(emacs_sources), $(emacs_images) and
$(emacs_bytecode) to their target directories. $(emacs_bytecode) was
already a prerequisite of make install-emacs as these obviously needed
to be build. Until a while ago all of $(emacs_sources) was available
in the repository, but now it includes `notmuch-version.el` which
is generated. In the future we may have generated emacs images too.
Currently notmuch-tag throws a "wrong-type-argument stringp nil" if
passed a nil query-string. Catch this and provide a more useful error
message. This fixes a case in notmuch-tree (if you try to tag when at
the end of the buffer).
Secondly, as pointed out by David (dme)
`notmuch-search-find-stable-query-region' can return the query string
() if there are no messages in the region. This gets passed to notmuch
tag, and due to interactions in the optimize_query code in
notmuch-tag.c becomes, in the case tag-change is -inbox, "( () ) and
(tag:inbox)". This query matches some strange collection of messages
which then get archived. This should probably be fixed, but in any
case make `notmuch-search-find-stable-query-region' return a nil
query-string in this case.
This avoids data-loss (random tag removal) in this case.
The implementation and documentation for `notmuch-search-line-faces'
disagreed in how elements in the list were merged. Correct the
documentation to match the implementation (that is, the earlier
elements in the list have precedence over later elements).
Some archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring to
messages than just concatenated url and message-id. In particular,
patchwork requires a query to translate message-id to a patchwork
patch id. Allow functions in notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist
to facilitate this.
For example, one could use something like this for patchwork.
(lambda (message-id)
(concat
"http://patchwork.example.com/patch/"
(nth 0
(split-string
(car (last (process-lines "pwclient" "search" "-n" "1"
"-m" (concat "<" message-id ">"))))))))
The recent changes for saved searches introduced a bug when notmuch
was loaded after the saved search was defined. This was caused by a
utility function not being defined when the defcustom was loaded.
Fix this by moving some code around: the defcustom is moved into
notmuch-hello (which is a more natural place anyway), and the utility
functions are moved before the defcustom in notmuch-hello. We are
rather constrained as the defcustom for saved searches is the first
variable in the notmuch-hello customize window; to avoid moving this
customize the defcustom needs to be the first defcustom in
notmuch-hello, and the utility functions come before that.
This patch also renames one of the utility functions from
notmuch--saved-searches-to-plist to
notmuch-hello--saved-searches-to-plist (as it is purely local to
notmuch-hello) and corrects a couple of typo/spelling mistakes pointed
out by Tomi.
Previously, even if debug-on-error was non-nil, the debugger would not
trap on part renderer errors. This made debugging part renderer bugs
frustrating, so let the debugger trap these errors.
My recent changes to the saved search format broke the alphabetically
sorted saved sort option. This makes it work again.
Also update docs for saved-search sort defcustom to match the new
format.
Finally, since the saved-search list is no longer an alist change the
names in the sort function to avoid confusion.
It was decided that auto-signing is potentially too troublesome for the
apparently common case of users who enable crypto processing for the
purpose of checking signature validity but who are not in a position to
sign out-going messages. Users can still manually invoke signing as needed.
Encrypting replies to encrypted messages is more of a security issue
so we leave it in place.
This is a simple approach to improving security when replying to
signed or encrypted messages. If the message being replied to was
signed, add mml tag to sign the reply. If the message being replied to
was encrypted, add mml tag to sign and encrypt the reply.
This may need configuration; I for one might want to encrypt replies
to encrypted messages, but not always sign replies to signed messages.
This still includes a slight bug: if any mml tags are added, they are
included in the region containing the quoted parts. Killing the region
will kill the mml tags too.
This adds a sort-order option to saved-searches, stores it in the
saved-search buttons (widgets), and uses the stored value when the
button is pressed.
Storing the sort-order in the widget was suggested by Jani in
id:4c3876274126985683e888641b29cf18142a5eb8.1391771337.git.jani@nikula.org.
Make the defcustom for notmuch-saved-searches use the new plist
format. It should still work with oldstyle saved-searches but will
write the newstyle form.
Add helper functions to for saved searches to ease the transition to
the new plist form while maintaining backwards compatibility. They
will be used in the next patch.
The notmuch cli program and emacs lisp versions may differ (especially
in remote usage). It helps to resolve problems if we can determine
the versions of notmuch cli and notmuch emacs mua separately.
The build process now creates notmuch-version.el from template file
by filling the version info to notmuch-emacs-version variable.
We push mark on reply so user can cut the quote. Push the mark before
signature, if any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is
preserved.
This is consistent with message-kill-to-signature.
So that users can easily organize their notmuch-specific configurations
to separate file and they don't have to have notmuch configurations in
*every* emacs installation they launch, especially if those need to
'(require notmuch) to make the configurations possible.
When (require 'notmuch) is added to ~/.emacs notmuch is loaded to every
instance of emacs although it may not be used in majority of
those instances.
When (autoload 'notmuch "notmuch" ...) is added to ~/.emacs notmuch
is loaded (only) when user invokes the notmuch function.
User may want to add other entrypoints to notmuch by adding more
autoloads -- the autoload instruction given should offer them clue how
to do so.
Previously, the term escaper used a blacklist of characters that
needed escaping. This blacklist turned out to be somewhat incomplete;
for example, it did not contain non-whitespace ASCII control
characters or Unicode "fancy quotes", both of which do require the
term to be escaped.
Switch to a whitelist of characters that are definitely safe to leave
unquoted. This fixes the broken test introduced by the previous
patch.
This uses the recent functionality to show the tag changes in the tree
buffer. Currently this is only used to show changes the tree buffer
makes itself: i.e., it does not make display any changes reflecting
tagging done by other notmuch-buffers.
This uses the recent functionality to show the tag changes in the
search buffer. Currently this is only used to show changes the search
buffer makes itself: i.e., it does not make display any changes
reflecting tagging done by other notmuch-buffers.
This allows (and requires) the original-tags to be passed along with
the current-tags to be passed to notmuch-tag-format-tags. This allows
the tag formatting to show added and deleted tags.By default a removed
tag is displayed with strike-through in red (if strike-through is not
available, eg on a terminal, inverse video is used instead) and an
added tag is displayed underlined in green.
If the caller does not wish to use the new feature it can pass
current-tags for both arguments and, at this point, we do exactly that
in the three callers of this function.
Note, we cannot tidily allow original-tags to be optional because we would
need to distinguish nil meaning "we are not specifying original-tags"
from nil meaning there were no original-tags (an empty list).
We use this in subsequent patches to make it clear when a message was
unread when you first loaded a show buffer (previously the unread tag
could be removed before a user realised that it had been unread).
The code adds into the existing tag formatting code. The user can
specify exactly how a tag should be displayed normally, when deleted,
or when added.
Since the formatting code matches regexps a user can match all deleted
tags with a ".*" in notmuch-tag-deleted-formats. For example setting
notmuch-tag-deleted-formats to '((".*" nil)) tells notmuch not to show
deleted tags at all.
All the variables are customizable; however, more complicated cases
like changing the face depending on the type of display will require
custom lisp.
Currently this overrides notmuch-tag-deleted-formats for the tests
setting it to '((".*" nil)) so that they get removed from the display
and, thus, all tests still pass.
Add customize options for deleted/added tag formats. These are not
used yet but will be later in the series.
We switch to using `notmuch-apply-face' rather than `propertize' in
the defcustom for faces so that the faces for deleted/added tags add
to the default face attributes for the tag.
We special case deleting the unread tag as that tag is a strong visual
cue and we don't need that cue when we are just saying it used to be
unread. Thus, we revert to the normal tag face with strikethough for
deleted unread tags.
We will re-use the customize option for format-tags for formattting
deleted tags to added tags in the next patch so split it into a
widget. There should be no functional change.
This modifies `notmuch-tag-format-tag' to treat the keys of
`notmuch-tag-formats' as (anchored) regexps, rather than literal
strings. This is clearly more flexible, as it allows for prefix
matching, defining a fallback format, etc. This may cause compatibility
problems if people have customized `notmuch-tag-formats' to match tags
that contain regexp specials, but this seems unlikely.
Regular expression matching has quite a performance hit over string
lookup, so this also introduces a simple cache from exact tags to
formatted strings. The number of unique tags is likely to be quite
small, so this cache should have a high hit rate. In addition to
eliminating the regexp lookup in the common case, this cache stores
fully formatted tags, eliminating the repeated evaluation of potentially
expensive, user-specified formatting code. This makes regexp lookup at
least as fast as assoc for unformatted tags (e.g., inbox) and *faster*
than the current code for formatted tags (e.g., unread):
inbox (usec) unread (usec)
assoc: 0.4 2.8
regexp: 3.2 7.2
regexp+caching: 0.4 0.4
(Though even at 7.2 usec, tag formatting is not our top bottleneck.)
This cache must be explicitly cleared to keep it coherent, so this adds
the appropriate clearing calls.
This combines our two face combining functions into one, easy to use
function with a much shorter name: `notmuch-apply-face'. This
function takes the full set of arguments that
`notmuch-combine-face-text-property' took, but takes them in a more
convenient order and provides smarter defaults that make the function
easy to use on both strings and buffers.
Currently notmuch-show-pipe-message runs the command in the working
directory of the *notmuch-pipe* buffer if it exists, and the current
buffer's working directory (which is inherited to the new
*notmuch-pipe* buffer) otherwise. This is all very surprising to the
user, and it's difficult to know or change where the command will be
run.
Always use the current show buffer's working directory for piping. The
user can check that with M-x pwd and change it with M-x cd. This is
consistent with notmuch-show-pipe-part.
`notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' is over-engineered and often wrong.
It attempts to detect when all identities have the same name and
specialize the prompt to just the email address part. However, to do
this it uses `mail-extract-address-components', which is meant for
displaying email addresses, not general-purpose parsing, and hence
performs many canonicalizations that can interfere with this use. For
example, configuring notmuch-identities to ("Austin
<austin@example.com>"), will cause `notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' to
lose the name part entirely and return " <austin@example.com>".
This patch rewrites `notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender' to simply prompt
for a full identity when notmuch-identities is configured, or to
prompt for a sender address when it isn't.
The original code also did several strange things, like using `eval'
and specifying that this function was interactive. As a side-effect,
this patch fixes these problems. And it adds a docstring.
Since a newline starts a new query in batch mode, this causes
mysterious crashes in the emacs interface if saved searches contain
newlines. See the discussion at
id:87wqhcxb5j.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca
In general newlines seem to be just whitespace to the xapian query
parser, so this should be mainly harmless.
When "notmuch config" is called with the name of an empty or
unconfigured setting, it prints nothing (not even a new line).
Previously, `notmuch-config-get' assumed it would always print a
newline. As a result, when `notmuch-config-get' was called with the
name of an empty of unconfigured setting, it would attempt to
(substring "" 0 -1) to strip the newline, which would fail with a
(args-out-of-range "" 0 -1) exception.
Fix this by only stripping the newline if there actually is one.
Previously, we used `message-forward' to build forwarded messages, but
this function is simply too high-level to be a good fit for some of
what we do.
First, since `message-forward' builds a full forward message buffer
given the message to forward, we have to duplicate much of the logic
in `notmuch-mua-mail' to patch the notmuch-y things into the built
buffer.
Second, `message-forward' constructs the From header from
user-full-name and user-mail-address. As a result, if we prompt the
user for an identity, we have to parse it into name and address
components, just to have it put back together by `message-forward'.
This process is not entirely loss-less because
`mail-extract-address-components' does a lot of canonicalization
(since it's intended for displaying addresses, not for parsing them).
To fix these problems, don't use `message-forward' at all.
`message-forward' itself is basically just a call to `message-mail'
and `message-forward-make-body'. Do this ourselves, but call
`notmuch-mua-mail' instead of `message-mail' so we can directly build
a notmuch-y message and control the From header.
This also fixes a bug that was a direct consequence of our use of
`mail-extract-address-components': if the user chose an identity that
had no name part (or the name part matched the mailbox), we would bind
user-full-name to nil, which would cause an exception in the bowels of
message-mode because user-full-name is expected to always be a string
(even if it's just "").
Previously, we updated .eldeps only if the file contents actually
needed to change. This was done to avoid unnecessary make restarts
(if the .eldeps rule changes the mtime of .eldeps, make has to restart
to collect the new dependencies). However, this meant that, after a
modification to any .el file that did not change dependencies, .eldeps
would always be out of date, so every make invocation would run the
.eldeps rule, which is both expensive because it starts up Emacs and
noisy. This was true even when there was nothing to do. E.g.,
$ make clean && make
...
$ touch emacs/notmuch-lib.el && make
...
$ make
Use "make V=1" to see the verbose compile lines.
EMACS emacs/.eldeps
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
$ make
Use "make V=1" to see the verbose compile lines.
EMACS emacs/.eldeps
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Fix this by replacing .eldeps with two files with identical content.
One tracks the mtime of the dependency information and triggers the
Emacs call to rebuild dependencies only when it may be necessary. The
other tracks the content only; this rule over-triggers in the same way
the old rule did, but this rule is cheap and quiet.
Searching by Message-Id no longer works via the old mail-archive.com
API, though I have contacted them in hopes that they restore it to
prevent dead links. Anyway, the new API is cleaner.
Acked-by: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Imitated from "Enabling advice" in Emacs lisp manual...
ad-disable-advice by itself only changes the enable flag for a
piece of advice. To make the change take effect in the
advised definition, the advice needs to be activated again.
Previously tree did not use tag-format-tags: since tree wants to
distinguish matching messages from non-matching messages it is not a
perfect fit.
However, in preparation for allowing tag-changes to be shown (i.e.,
added or deleted tags to be indicated) it is convenient to make all
places displaying tags call the same routines.
We modify notmuch-tag-format-tags slightly so that it can take and
argument for the default characteristics of the face before the
special tag features are applied.
This also means that things like the star symbol for flagged messages
all work in tree.
This adds default faces for matching and non-matching messages. This
makes it easier for a user to do broad customization without having to
customize every field. It also fits more neatly with the next patch
which switches to using notmuch-tag-format-tags for tag formatting.
We set the field specific face customization to nil for all the fields
which use the message default face to make it clear to a user which
fields customizations are being used.
Previously the tags on each line in tree view were separarted by ", "
not just " ". This is different from show and search views.
This patch removes this comma. This is a large patch as essentially
every line of each of the expected outputs in the tree tests needs
updating.
Apart from aesthetic reasons this simplifies the switch to
notmuch-tag-format-tags in the next patch.
If we don't have emacs, disable targets that used EMACS while doing
the recipes of that target.
If we do have emacs, make install-emacs depend on *.elc files,
as making the target will attempt to install those.
Previously notmuch-tree-get-message-id always returned the id
including the prefix "id:". Modify the function to take an optional
`bare' argument saying to return the raw string.
This will be useful later and brings the function in line with
notmuch-show-get-message-id.
In emacs 24.3+ the stdout/stderr from externally displaying an
attachment gets inserted into the show buffer. This is caused by
changes in mm-display-external in mm-decode.el.
Ideally, we would put this output in the notmuch errors buffer but the
handler is called asynchronously so we don't know when the output will
appear. Thus if we put it straight into the errors buffer it could get
interleaved with other errors. Also we can't easily tell when we
have got all the error output so can't wait until the process is complete.
One solution would be to create a new buffer for the stderr of each
attachment viewed. Again, since we can't tell when the process has
finished, we can't close these buffers automatically so this will
leave lots of buffers around.
Thus we add a debug variable notmuch-show-attachment-debug: it this is
non-nil we create a new buffer for each viewer; if this variable is
nil we just use a temp buffer which means all error output is
discarded (this is the same behaviour as with emacs pre 24.3).
In current emacs (24.3) select-active-regions is set to t by
default. The reply insertion code sets the region to the quoted
message to make it easy to delete (kill-region or C-w). These two
things combine to put the quoted message in the primary selection.
This is not what the user wanted and is a privacy risk (accidental
pasting of the quoted message). We can avoid some of the problems
by let-binding select-active-regions to nil. This fixes if the
primary selection was previously in a non-emacs window but not if
it was in an emacs window. To avoid the problem in the latter case
we deactivate mark.
One key test (which fails under many simpler "fixes") is: open emacs
24.3 with notmuch, open 2 windows (viewing different notmuch buffers),
highlight some text in one, and then reply to a message in the
other. In many of my earlier attempts to fix this big this test fails.
