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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: introduce notmuch-command-to-string,\r
+ replace use of shell-command-to-string\r
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+On Fri, Mar 29 2013, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+\r
+> david@tethera.net writes:\r
+>\r
+>> 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
+LGTM. The implementation is quite much the same as in \r
+notmuch-call-notmuch-process, just that this function returns\r
+the output as a string.\r
+\r
+> d\r
+\r
+Tomi\r