Re: [PATCH] Implement a simple read-eval-print loop.

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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement a simple read-eval-print loop.\r
+From: servilio <servilio@gmail.com>\r
+To: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>\r
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+Hi Michal,\r
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+On 20 November 2010 16:15, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:\r
+> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, servilio wrote:\r
+>> This implementation uses GNU readline for the prompt and command\r
+>> history, with the default file completion enabled. GLib is used to\r
+>> split the read line into an arguments list.\r
+>\r
+> Hi,\r
+>\r
+> I haven't tested it yet, but it seems to be exactly the piece of code I\r
+> wanted to have to speed up notmuch-hello when notmuch is used remotely\r
+> over ssh. Spawning new ssh for every saved search to get the count of\r
+> matched messages has a way too big overhead. Is this the use case you\r
+> had in mind when implementing this?\r
+\r
+Great to see that you find it useful. Yes, the remote usage was in my\r
+mind, but it should enhance the local usage as well. We could also\r
+create a quicker test run using the shell.\r
+\r
+The disadvantage of using an interactive shell is that you can have\r
+only one operation running in the UI, and I see no way of\r
+interrumpting an operation unless you kill the process, but as\r
+starting a new shell shouldn't be a biggie, this might not be as\r
+limiting as might seem.\r
+\r
+The ideal would be for libnotmuch to be able to connect to a\r
+xapian-tcpsrv, but haven't had time to look at than, and an\r
+interactive shell seemed to be less time demanding to implement (and\r
+had the subjective promise of providing a lot of fun).\r
+\r
+> Currently, I have only one comment to the patch. For me, "repl" is a bit\r
+> unintuitive. I was thinking about "shell" as the name of subcommand for\r
+> this.\r
+\r
+I agree, maybe "shell" or "interactive" would be more intuitive, but\r
+when I started "repl" was the only one I could think of.\r
+\r
+Servilio\r