lib: Fix notmuch_query_search_threads to return NULL on any Xapian exception.

[notmuch] / TODO

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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Fix the things that are causing the most pain to new users
 
 Emacs interface (notmuch.el)
 ----------------------------
+Switch the notmuch-search view to use "notmuch search --format=json"
+to fix large classes of bugs regarding poorly-escaped output and lame
+regular expressions. (The most recently found, unfixed example is the
+sender's name containing ';' which causes emacs to drop a search
+result.) This may require removing the outer array from the current
+"notmuch search --format=json" results.
+
 Enhance '+' and '-' in the search view to operate on an entire region
 if set.
 
@@ -247,6 +254,11 @@ into the shared-library interface.
 Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are
 wrapped in a try/catch block.
 
+Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC:
+
+       ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the
+       database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact
+
 Search syntax
 -------------
 Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags.
@@ -313,3 +325,11 @@ Audit everything for dealing with out-of-memory (and drop xutil.c).
 
 Investigate why the notmuch database is slightly larger than the sup
 database for the same corpus of email.
+
+Makefile should print message teaching user about LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or
+similar) if libdir is not set to a directory examined by ldconfig.
+
+Fix notmuch build system to work with gold, (apt-get
+binutils-gold). Need the notmuch binary to explicitly link againsts
+libraries it depends on, (rather than just getting them via
+libnotmuch).