Re: [PATCH 1/4] emacs: unify search mechanisms

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:39:14 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:35:37 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:14:52 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Before the change, there were two ways to do search in Emacs UI:
> > > search widget in notmuch-hello buffer and `notmuch-search'
> > > function bound to "s".  Internally, notmuch-hello search widget
> > > uses `notmuch-search' function.  But it uses widget field input
> > > instead of minibuffer.  Such duplication is a major issue for
> > > notmuch-hello usability: search interface is inconsistent and
> > > lacks features that are available in minibuffer (e.g. history and
> > > auto completion).  Some of these features may be relatively easy
> > > to implement for notmuch-hello search, others would be much more
> > > tricky.  So to avoid duplication, make UI more consistent, bring
> > > notmuch-hello search to feature parity with the minibuffer
> > > search, the patch replaces notmuch-hello search widget and with a
> > > button that works the same way as "s" key binding.
> > 
> > Dmitry, if Daniel re-submits his patches to allow the construction of
> > `notmuch-hello' buffers to be configured, it seems that this patchset
> > would become unnecessary. Is that correct?
> 
> Right.  We will just need to fix the 's' key binding.  Looking forward
> for that.

Isn't (something like) this still needed to merge the search histories:

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Jani.