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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: show a single message in a huge thread
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 09:37:41 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s3zniei.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r9rkw2i.fsf@m4x.org>

alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org writes:

> Hello,
>
> I want to see a message in a huge thread (too big for notmuch to
> display). To find it, I switch to unthreaded mode, I select the message
> (I hit RET), but then notmuch tries to show all the other messages as
> well (which makes it hang as the thread is too big, and one of the
> message results in an error "symbolp: Lisp nesting exceeds
> ‘max-lisp-eval-depth’", which prevents later messages from being
> displayed).

Did you try M-x notuch-tree ?

It displays messages one at a time.

Starting from notmuch-search-mode, you could

- use Z to switch to tree mode, then select the message you
  want.

- If that is too tedious, use 'z' to search for something more precise,
  and report the results in tree-mode.
\r

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-28 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-28 10:10 show a single message in a huge thread alan.schmitt
2021-05-28 12:37 ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-05-28 14:16   ` Alan Schmitt
2021-06-01  6:57     ` Alan Schmitt
2021-06-01 18:33       ` David Bremner
2021-06-01 18:48         ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2021-06-02  6:46         ` Alan Schmitt
2021-06-02 12:18           ` David Bremner
2021-06-02 16:02             ` David Bremner
2021-06-02 19:19               ` Tomi Ollila
2021-06-02 23:31                 ` First attempt at a fix for single message display deep in thread David Bremner
2021-06-02 23:31                   ` [PATCH 1/2] emacs/show: add parameter notmuch-show-single-message David Bremner
2021-06-02 23:31                   ` [PATCH 2/2] emacs/tree: use notmuch-show-single-message David Bremner
2021-06-03  7:53                   ` First attempt at a fix for single message display deep in thread Alan Schmitt
2021-06-03  7:55             ` show a single message in a huge thread Alan Schmitt
2021-06-11 16:45               ` Jonathan Wilner
2021-06-12 20:39                 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-05-28 16:01 ` Jameson Graef Rollins

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