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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: tree/show remove duplicate function\r
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+Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+>> Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
+>>> + (cond ((eq major-mode 'notmuch-show-mode)\r
+>>> + (notmuch-show-get-message-properties))\r
+>>> + ((eq major-mode 'notmuch-tree-mode)\r
+>>> + (notmuch-tree-get-message-properties))))\r
+>>\r
+>> I see this already existed, but it looks weird to me to have a two test\r
+>> cond with no else. Is it intentional to have the code drop through and\r
+>> do nothing if neither case matches? It seems like it might be better to\r
+>> signal an error.\r
+>\r
+> I can definitely do that. But as a comparison\r
+> notmuch-search-get-result and notmuch-search-find-thread-id "work" in\r
+> any buffer in the sense of returning nil but not complaining so perhaps\r
+> the current version is more consistent. \r
+>\r
+\r
+It occurs to me that we can fix all 3 places in a followup patch,\r
+so I'll push this for now.\r
+\r
+d\r