[PATCH V2 1/1] NEWS: under-the-hood Emacs interface fixes

[PATCH V2 1/1] NEWS: under-the-hood Emacs interface fixes

[Tomi Ollila]

Added the following Emacs Interface NEWS entries:

Catch errors bodypart insertions may throw,
Improved text/calendar content handling and
Disabled coding conversions when reading in
`with-current-notmuch-show-message`.

Thanks to Austin for improved content parts.
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This replaces id:1354488524-12013-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi

 NEWS | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 34e7a28..6970178 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
   has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
   `notmuch-saved-searches`.

+Handle errors bodypart insertions may throw
+
+  If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
+  the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
+  off thread display at the offending message.  The error is now
+  simply displayed in place of the message.
+
+Improved text/calendar content handling
+
+  Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
+  of calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
+  to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
+  is thrown for bodypart insertion function to react upon it.
+
+Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
+
+  Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
+  data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
+  corrupting the saved attachment.  This has been fixed by making
+  `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
+
 Library changes
 ---------------

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1.8.0

Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] NEWS: under-the-hood Emacs interface fixes

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> Added the following Emacs Interface NEWS entries:
>
> Catch errors bodypart insertions may throw,
> Improved text/calendar content handling and
> Disabled coding conversions when reading in
> `with-current-notmuch-show-message`.
>

Some suggestions about wording:

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6970178..2e1c054 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
   has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
   `notmuch-saved-searches`.
 
-Handle errors bodypart insertions may throw
+Handle errors from bodypart insertions
 
   If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
   the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ Handle errors bodypart insertions may throw
 Improved text/calendar content handling
 
   Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
-  of calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
+  of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
   to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
-  is thrown for bodypart insertion function to react upon it.
+  is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
 
 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`