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+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] emacs: move tag format validation to `notmuch-tag'\r
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+One philosophical nit below, but not enough to hold this up.\r
+\r
+Quoth Dmitry Kurochkin on Jan 28 at 8:41 am:\r
+> Before the change, tag format validation was done in\r
+> `notmuch-search-operate-all' function only. The patch moves it down\r
+> to `notmuch-tag', so that all users of that function get input\r
+> validation.\r
+> ---\r
+> emacs/notmuch.el | 12 ++++++------\r
+> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)\r
+> \r
+> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el\r
+> index 72f78ed..84d7d0a 100644\r
+> --- a/emacs/notmuch.el\r
+> +++ b/emacs/notmuch.el\r
+> @@ -522,6 +522,12 @@ Note: Other code should always use this function alter tags of\r
+> messages instead of running (notmuch-call-notmuch-process \"tag\" ..)\r
+> directly, so that hooks specified in notmuch-before-tag-hook and\r
+> notmuch-after-tag-hook will be run."\r
+> + ;; Perform some validation\r
+> + (when (null tags) (error "No tags given"))\r
+\r
+Since this is a non-interactive function and hence is meant to be\r
+invoked programmatically, I would expect it to accept zero tags.\r
+Unlike the following check, this is a UI-level check and thus, I\r
+believe, belongs in interactive functions (even if that requires a\r
+little duplication).\r
+\r
+> + (mapc (lambda (tag)\r
+> + (unless (string-match-p "^[-+][-+_.[:word:]]+$" tag)\r
+> + (error "Tag must be of the form `+this_tag' or `-that_tag'")))\r
+> + tags)\r
+> (run-hooks 'notmuch-before-tag-hook)\r
+> (apply 'notmuch-call-notmuch-process\r
+> (append (list "tag") tags (list "--" query)))\r
+> @@ -890,12 +896,6 @@ characters as well as `_.+-'.\r
+> (interactive (notmuch-select-tags-with-completion\r
+> "Operations (+add -drop): notmuch tag "\r
+> '("+" "-")))\r
+> - ;; Perform some validation\r
+> - (when (null actions) (error "No operations given"))\r
+> - (mapc (lambda (action)\r
+> - (unless (string-match-p "^[-+][-+_.[:word:]]+$" action)\r
+> - (error "Action must be of the form `+this_tag' or `-that_tag'")))\r
+> - actions)\r
+> (apply 'notmuch-tag notmuch-search-query-string actions))\r
+> \r
+> (defun notmuch-search-buffer-title (query)\r