notmuch.el: Switch from start-process to call-process

[notmuch] / notmuch.el

diff --git a/notmuch.el b/notmuch.el
index 05179150a9b7d7dbbaa02f980a462c4758e19afe..86b939913a65bd024c6f9f503603fb86923d5d25 100644 (file)
--- a/notmuch.el
+++ b/notmuch.el
@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@
 ; along with Notmuch.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ;
 ; Authors: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+;
+; Much of notmuch.el was written by looking at the implementation of
+; compile.el from the emacs distribution source which has the
+; following copyright and authorsip (and the identical license as
+; above):
+;
+; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
+;   2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
+;   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+; Authors: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>,
+;          Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan@esperanto.org>
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun notmuch-search-mode ()
@@ -28,8 +40,26 @@
        mode-name "notmuch-search")
   (setq buffer-read-only t))
 
+(defun notmuch-search (query)
+  "Run \"notmuch search\" with the given query string and display results."
+  (interactive "sNotmuch search: ")
+  (let ((buffer (get-buffer-create (concat "*notmuch-search-" query))))
+    (switch-to-buffer buffer)
+    (setq buffer-read-only t)
+    (let ((proc (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))
+         (inhibit-read-only t))
+      (if proc
+         (error "notmuch search process already running for query `%s'" query)
+       )
+      (erase-buffer)
+      (beginning-of-buffer)
+      (save-excursion
+       (call-process "notmuch" nil t nil "search" query)
+       )
+      )))
+
 (defun notmuch ()
   "Run notmuch to display all mail with tag of 'inbox'"
   (interactive)
   (require 'compile)
-  (compilation-start "notmuch search tag:inbox" 'notmuch-search-mode))
+  (notmuch-search "tag:inbox"))