emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting

[notmuch] / emacs / notmuch.el

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
index 63387a2dfe28c85fce445dc0a1f74d63498f3d0f..c98a4febbf69f9dcc100aa8e2b3449d77a9ed89d 100644 (file)
--- a/emacs/notmuch.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
@@ -654,11 +654,14 @@ of the result."
                    ;; showing the search buffer
                    (when (or (= exit-status 20) (= exit-status 21))
                      (kill-buffer))
-                   (condition-case nil
+                   (condition-case err
                        (notmuch-check-async-exit-status proc msg)
                      ;; Suppress the error signal since strange
-                     ;; things happen if a sentinel signals.
-                     (error (throw 'return nil)))
+                     ;; things happen if a sentinel signals.  Mimic
+                     ;; the top-level's handling of error messages.
+                     (error
+                      (message "%s" (second err))
+                      (throw 'return nil)))
                    (if (and atbob
                             (not (string= notmuch-search-target-thread "found")))
                        (set 'never-found-target-thread t)))))