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From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
To: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return maximum of 150 results
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, James Vasile wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:00:23 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, James Vasile wrote:
> > > Display a maximum of 150 results when searching for messages.  This
> > > prevents client lag when searches return thousands of results you'll
> > > never look at
> > 
> > I would not like this feature. If I search for something I really want
> > to see everything. For example, if I want to remove inbox from many
> > messages, I would search for them and press "-inbox<ret>". With your
> > patch I'd not be sure whether there are some more messages or not.
> 
> Ah, I do such things from the commandline, but you are right that there
> is a good use for such.
> 
> > 
> > > (use the Filter command to cut down results that exceed 150).
> > 
> > You can start filtering while the previous search is still running, so I
> > do not see problem with having bug number of results.
> 
> Yes, you can filter while the search runs, but that's not the only
> problem with huge search results.  On my system, I routinely do searches
> that return 15000+ messages when I'm only interested in the first
> several.  When I hit Q, Emacs annoyingly asks me for permission to kill
> the buffer because it has a running process.  And emacs lags as it
> processes all that data.

Ahh, I almost forget about this. I use this patch to disable this.

-Michal

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From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:58:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do not query on notmuch-search exit

Emacs 23.2 queries by default about killing existing processes. Disable
this behavior for notmuch. I'm not sure whether this works with earlier
versions.
---
 emacs/notmuch.el |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
index 3d82f0d..8858f3e 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
@@ -858,7 +858,9 @@ The optional parameters are used as follows:
 		       "--sort=newest-first")
 		     query)))
 	  (set-process-sentinel proc 'notmuch-search-process-sentinel)
-	  (set-process-filter proc 'notmuch-search-process-filter))))
+	  (set-process-filter proc 'notmuch-search-process-filter)
+	  (set-process-query-on-exit-flag proc nil)))
+      )
     (run-hooks 'notmuch-search-hook)))
 
 (defun notmuch-search-refresh-view ()
-- 
1.7.5.4

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