On Thu, 26 May 2011 10:20:21 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:31:19 +0100, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke at > googlemail.com> wrote: > > Wow. This reads really complicated. All I want to say is: > > if I change tags in my search-results view, I get Xapian errors :) > > Yes, that's frustrating. I wish that we had a more reliable interface at > the notmuch library level. But I'm not entirely sure what would be the > best way to do this. > > > The question: How do you solve this in the emacs code? > > do you store all tids of a query? > > The emacs code does not use the notmuch library interface like your > python bindings do. Instead, it uses the notmuch command-line tool, (and > buffers up the text output by it). The support for asynchronous > operations in the emacs interface means that it's likely possible > someone could run into a similar problem: > > 1. Start a search returning a *lot* of results > > 2. When the first results come in, make some tag changes > > 3. See if the original search aborts > > I may have even had this happen to me before, but if I did I've never > actually noticed it. I don't know what a good answer might be for this > problem.
I've had exactly this happen to me. Yay for post-vacation email mountains and slow laptop drives... Cheers, mwh
