From ceec2e5750b9cdb3adc7c8d8c476765950e6d338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Walters Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:33:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] emacs: show: stop stderr appearing in buffer --- 37/bccedf093128c6ca9323d4e2b44c0ea6d11a25 | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 121 insertions(+) create mode 100644 37/bccedf093128c6ca9323d4e2b44c0ea6d11a25 diff --git a/37/bccedf093128c6ca9323d4e2b44c0ea6d11a25 b/37/bccedf093128c6ca9323d4e2b44c0ea6d11a25 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f081802c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/37/bccedf093128c6ca9323d4e2b44c0ea6d11a25 @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B67431FAF + for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:33:58 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -1.098 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.098 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, + NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id ZbfQHJp0EEaO for ; + Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:33:50 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail2.qmul.ac.uk (mail2.qmul.ac.uk [138.37.6.6]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01ECA431FAE + for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:33:49 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from smtp.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.6.40]) + by mail2.qmul.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.71) + (envelope-from ) + id 1VK3HU-0001Kj-1T; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:33:44 +0100 +Received: from 93-97-24-31.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.24.31] helo=localhost) + by smtp.qmul.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.71) + (envelope-from ) + id 1VK3HT-0008EH-Ob; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:33:43 +0100 +From: Mark Walters +To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: show: stop stderr appearing in buffer +In-Reply-To: <87r4cwojds.fsf@zancas.localnet> +References: <1378502198-7980-1-git-send-email-markwalters1009@gmail.com> + <87r4cwojds.fsf@zancas.localnet> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.16 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:33:42 +0100 +Message-ID: <87ppsepeo9.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +X-Sender-Host-Address: 93.97.24.31 +X-QM-SPAM-Info: Sender has good ham record. :) +X-QM-Body-MD5: 37c1df6d852096289544c624c84b9dba (of first 20000 bytes) +X-SpamAssassin-Score: 0.0 +X-SpamAssassin-SpamBar: / +X-SpamAssassin-Report: The QM spam filters have analysed this message to + determine if it is + spam. We require at least 5.0 points to mark a message as spam. + This message scored 0.0 points. Summary of the scoring: + * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail + provider * (markwalters1009[at]gmail.com) + * 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list +X-QM-Scan-Virus: ClamAV says the message is clean +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:33:58 -0000 + + +Hi + +On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, David Bremner wrote: +>> Ideally, we would put this output in the notmuch errors buffer but the +>> handler is called asynchronously so we don't know when the output will +>> appear. Thus if we put it straight into the errors buffer it could get +>> interleaved with other errors, otoh we can't easily tell when we +>> have got all the error output so can't wait until the process is complete. +> +> Hi Mark; +> +> I think your patch is OK, but would it be much harder to created a named +> buffer like *notmuch-view-$message-d* ? (using e.g. the code from +> notmuch-show). I might make debugging easier. + +Yes this is easy. There are several possibilities and I am not sure +which is best (some are clearly bad but are worth mentioning anyway). + +1) have a single buffer for part errors; this would accumulate stuff and +output seems to get interleaved so this is probably useless. + +2) have a buffer for each part viewer as you describe. + +3) have a buffer for each part viewer but start its name with a space so +it doesn't show up in buffer lists but is findable (maybe) + +4) stick with just the temp buffer approach + +Also, we could have it togglable with some sort of debug flag. In some +senses 3 is nice but you would probably end up with 10's or even +hundreds of hidden buffers which seems bad. In 2 you see them so you +probably kill them as you go but I think they would be pretty +annoying. A key difference from the accumulated show/search/pick buffers +is that, at some point, you did want to see those buffers. + +Since all these approaches are easy to implement it is really up to us +which we want. + +Any thoughts? + +Mark + + +> +> Of course those buffers would accumulate, along with show, search and +> pick buffers... +> +> Or we could push this as is, and add some debugging facility later like +> a variable notmuch-view-errors-buffer. +> +> d -- 2.26.2