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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: introduce notmuch-command-to-string,\r
+ replace use of shell-command-to-string\r
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+References: <874nguxbvq.fsf@tu-dortmund.de>\r
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+Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:14:10 -0400\r
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+Cc: Simon Campese <notmuchmail_org@campese.de>\r
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+david@tethera.net writes:\r
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+> From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
+>\r
+> This has two benefits: unified error handling, and avoiding tramp's\r
+> hooking into shell-command-string.\r
+>\r
+> This seems to be a fix for id:874nguxbvq.fsf@tu-dortmund.de\r
+> ---\r
+>\r
+> Simon: can you check if this fixes your bug?\r
+\r
+Anyone willing to sanity check my e-lisp?\r
+\r
+d\r