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25 From: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
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26 To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
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27 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reordering of thread authors to list matching authors
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58 On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:21:53 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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59 > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:58:27 -0700, Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org> wrote:
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60 > > When displaying threads as result of a search it makes sense to list those
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61 > > authors first who match the search. The matching authors are separated from the
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62 > > non-matching ones with a '|' instead of a ','
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64 > It seems a reasonable feature to me.
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66 I switched back to origin/master to help get ready for 0.3 and
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67 tremendously miss this feature :-)
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69 > Some notes on the patch:
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72 > > +notmuch_message_set_author (notmuch_message_t *message,
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73 > > + const char *author)
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75 > > + message->author = talloc_strdup(message, author);
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79 > This is leaking any previously set author value, (admittedly, it's only
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80 > a "talloc leak" so it will still get cleaned up when the message is
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81 > cleaned up, but still.
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83 Fixed in forthcoming revision of this patch
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86 > > +/* Set the author member of 'message' - this is the representation used
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87 > > + * when displaying the message
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90 > > +notmuch_message_set_author (notmuch_message_t *message, const char *author);
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92 > > +/* Get the author member of 'message'
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95 > > +notmuch_message_get_author (notmuch_message_t *message);
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97 > The notmuch.h file is our publicly installed header file for the library
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98 > interface. I don't think the feature here requires any new library
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99 > interface. Even if it did, we wouldn't want a public function like
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100 > set_author that could simply scramble internal state and change the
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101 > result of future calls to get_author.
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103 My mistake - moved them to notmuch-private.h
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106 > > + * move authors of matched messages in the thread to
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107 > > + * the front of the authors list, but keep them in
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108 > > + * existing order within their group
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111 > > +_thread_move_matched_author (notmuch_thread_t *thread,
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112 > > + const char *author)
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114 > The implementation here seems a bit fiddly.
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116 > We already have two passes over the messages, (first all messages, and
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117 > then all matched messages). And we're currently calling add_author from
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120 > How about simply calling a new add_matched_author from the second pass
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121 > which would look very much like the existing add_author. Then we could
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122 > change add_author to accumulate authors into an array rather than a
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123 > string. Then, finally, we would append any of these authors not already
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124 > in the matched_authors hash tabled onto the final string.
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126 > That should be less code and easier to understand I think.
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128 > I can take a whack at that later if you don't beat me to it.
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130 Maybe I'm misunderstanding your proposed algorithm - but it seems quite
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131 a bit more complicated than what I'm doing today...
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