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+From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH] emacs: Remove `notmuch-search-authors-width' and fix the use\r
+ of `notmuch-search-result-format' accordingly\r
+Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:24:09 +0100\r
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+The width of the authors field in search output was previously\r
+specified in two places:\r
+ - `notmuch-search-authors-width': the limit beyond which the authors\r
+ names are truncated,\r
+ - `notmuch-search-result-format': the layout of the search results.\r
+\r
+Changing the configuration of one of these may have required the user\r
+to know about and adapt the other accordingly. This led to confusion.\r
+\r
+Instead, remove `notmuch-search-authors-width' and perform truncation\r
+based on the relevant field in `notmuch-search-result-format'.\r
+---\r
+\r
+Jamie, could you test this patch please? My main concern is that it\r
+makes a small assumption about the value of\r
+`notmuch-search-result-format' - namely that the `authors' field ends\r
+with a space.\r
+\r
+ emacs/notmuch.el | 16 ++++++----------\r
+ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el\r
+index f96394a..d40c36e 100644\r
+--- a/emacs/notmuch.el\r
++++ b/emacs/notmuch.el\r
+@@ -55,15 +55,10 @@\r
+ (require 'notmuch-show)\r
+ (require 'notmuch-mua)\r
+ \r
+-(defcustom notmuch-search-authors-width 20\r
+- "Number of columns to use to display authors in a notmuch-search buffer."\r
+- :type 'integer\r
+- :group 'notmuch)\r
+-\r
+ (defcustom notmuch-search-result-format\r
+ `(("date" . "%s ")\r
+ ("count" . "%-7s ")\r
+- ("authors" . ,(format "%%-%ds " notmuch-search-authors-width))\r
++ ("authors" . "%-20s ")\r
+ ("subject" . "%s ")\r
+ ("tags" . "(%s)"))\r
+ "Search result formating. Supported fields are:\r
+@@ -585,7 +580,11 @@ matching will be applied."\r
+ ((string-equal field "count")\r
+ (insert (format (cdr (assoc field notmuch-search-result-format)) count)))\r
+ ((string-equal field "authors")\r
+- (insert (format (cdr (assoc field notmuch-search-result-format)) authors)))\r
++ (insert (let ((sample (format (cdr (assoc field notmuch-search-result-format)) "")))\r
++ (if (> (length authors)\r
++ (length sample))\r
++ (concat (substring authors 0 (- (length sample) 4)) "... ")\r
++ (format (cdr (assoc field notmuch-search-result-format)) authors)))))\r
+ ((string-equal field "subject")\r
+ (insert (format (cdr (assoc field notmuch-search-result-format)) subject)))\r
+ ((string-equal field "tags")\r
+@@ -614,12 +613,9 @@ matching will be applied."\r
+ (date (match-string 2 string))\r
+ (count (match-string 3 string))\r
+ (authors (match-string 4 string))\r
+- (authors-length (length authors))\r
+ (subject (match-string 5 string))\r
+ (tags (match-string 6 string))\r
+ (tag-list (if tags (save-match-data (split-string tags)))))\r
+- (if (> authors-length notmuch-search-authors-width)\r
+- (set 'authors (concat (substring authors 0 (- notmuch-search-authors-width 3)) "...")))\r
+ (goto-char (point-max))\r
+ (let ((beg (point-marker)))\r
+ (notmuch-search-show-result date count authors subject tags)\r
+-- \r
+1.7.0\r
+\r