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From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] emacs: Centralize notmuch command error handling
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:45:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gojxfo4.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2obhvp9rl.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi>

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> This provides library functions for unified handling of errors from
>> the notmuch CLI.  Follow-up patches will convert some scattered error
>> handling to use this and add error handling where we currently ignore
>> errors.
>> ---
>
> The series looks pretty good, some hardcoded patchs Mark noticed
> and it looks to me (after viewing id:8738z7hd6x.fsf@qmul.ac.uk
> that err -> nil could be done.

Fixed.

> Would (goto-char (point-min)) be needed before (insert msg) in
> this patch -- what If user has moved cursor while viewing old
> error messages but not pressed q (dismissed) on the buffer. 

Good idea.  Actually, I had intended to *append* the error to the buffer
so it would be in chronological order.  I tweaked things a bit so
messages should always be appended and point will be left at the end of
the error log.

> Also, what about (unless (eobp) (insert "\n")) to add empty
> line between error messages ?

Done.

> Tomi

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-15 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-15  5:15 [PATCH 0/7] Improve Emacs CLI error handling Austin Clements
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] emacs: Centralize notmuch command " Austin Clements
2012-12-15 16:20   ` Tomi Ollila
2012-12-15 19:45     ` Austin Clements [this message]
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] emacs: Use unified error handling in notmuch-call-notmuch-process Austin Clements
2012-12-15  9:30   ` Mark Walters
2012-12-15 19:51     ` Austin Clements
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] emacs: Factor out synchronous notmuch JSON invocations Austin Clements
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] emacs: Improve error handling for notmuch-call-notmuch-json Austin Clements
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 5/7] test: Test show's handling of subprocess errors Austin Clements
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] emacs: Use unified error handling in search Austin Clements
2012-12-15  9:33   ` Mark Walters
2012-12-15 19:52     ` Austin Clements
2012-12-15  5:15 ` [PATCH 7/7] test: Test search's handling of subprocess errors Austin Clements
2012-12-15  9:48   ` Mark Walters

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