Re: [PATCH 1/3] emacs: Introduce `notmuch-call-notmuch-sexp'

[Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>]

That is fine.

(I think I only moved your code from one file to another but in any case
what you suggest is fine.)

Best wishes

Mark


On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Yes, and thanks for reminding me about the require's.  I'll do that in
> a follow up.  I was thinking of just moving the streaming JSON parser
> to a repo on my GitHub account, since maybe somebody some day will
> find a use for it, or at least take inspiration from the API (I looked
> into streaming JSON parser APIs before embarking on that one and
> they're all terrible!)  Mark, you're the only other person who has
> touched that code.  Is this plan good with you?
>
> Quoth Mark Walters on Jun 24 at  8:00 pm:
>> 
>> This series looks good to me +1. 
>> 
>> Is it worth removing all the json (3 files with (require 'json) and the
>> async json parser) too?
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> > This is just like `notmuch-call-notmuch-json', but parses S-expression
>> > output.  Note that, also like `notmuch-call-notmuch-json', this
>> > doesn't consider trailing data to be an error, which may or may not be
>> > what we want in the long run.
>> > ---
>> >  emacs/notmuch-lib.el |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
>> > index 534f217..36eacc1 100644
>> > --- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
>> > +++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
>> > @@ -484,6 +484,23 @@ an error."
>> >  	      (json-read)))
>> >  	(delete-file err-file)))))
>> >  
>> > +(defun notmuch-call-notmuch-sexp (&rest args)
>> > +  "Invoke `notmuch-command' with ARGS and return the parsed S-exp output.
>> > +
>> > +If notmuch exits with a non-zero status, this will pop up a
>> > +buffer containing notmuch's output and signal an error."
>> > +
>> > +  (with-temp-buffer
>> > +    (let ((err-file (make-temp-file "nmerr")))
>> > +      (unwind-protect
>> > +	  (let ((status (apply #'call-process
>> > +			       notmuch-command nil (list t err-file) nil args)))
>> > +	    (notmuch-check-exit-status status (cons notmuch-command args)
>> > +				       (buffer-string) err-file)
>> > +	    (goto-char (point-min))
>> > +	    (read (current-buffer)))
>> > +	(delete-file err-file)))))
>> > +
>> >  (defun notmuch-start-notmuch (name buffer sentinel &rest args)
>> >    "Start and return an asynchronous notmuch command.