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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: strange search behaviour in emacs\r
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+References: <87twxbypqw.fsf@uwaterloo.ca>\r
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+Sebastian Fischmeister <sfischme@uwaterloo.ca> writes:\r
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+> The following *always* returns an empty list, even when I see an email\r
+> with "bar" right there in the list after the first search:\r
+>\r
+> M-: (notmuch-search "from:sfischme") ;;me\r
+> M-: (notmuch-search "bar")\r
+\r
+I suspect this is related to asynch loading. The first query is still\r
+filling into the buffer, and emacs doesn't starting filling the second\r
+buffer until the first search finishes. In my experiments it\r
+_eventually_ does the second query. It just takes a while. I agree it\r
+would be nice if there was some UI hint before the first result arrives.\r
+\r
+d\r