From: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: nnir notmuch backend and the string-match function
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:26:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvqh4mmk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
I am currently trying to set up maildir search while using notmuch as a
nnir backend. So far, however, this has not been very successful.
Issuing a search using "G G" on a nnmaildir group presents me with the
following error message:
"Unknown header type nil while requesting articles of
group nnmaildir+gmail:gmail.Inbox"
So I started digging around in nnir.el and came across a very strange
bug I can't explain. In the function `nnir-compose-result' there is
the following expression:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(when (string-match (concat "^" prefix) dirnam)
(setq dirnam (replace-match "" t t dirnam)))
#+end_src
I stepped through this code with edebug and was very confused:
The value of dirnam is "/home/delexi/Mail/gmail/Inbox/cur/" and the value of
prefix is "/home/delexi/Mail/". To my surprise `string-match' did not
match anything! This of course leads to errors in the code following
this snippet. I tried this snippet in my scratch buffer and everything
worked fine (it matched the prefix correctly).
How is this possible? Is there something about string-match I am
missing? How is it possible, that this does not match anything?
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(string-match "^/home/delexi/Mail/"
"/home/delexi/Mail/gmail/Inbox/cur/")
#+end_src
Thanks in advance,
--
Alexander Baier
next reply other threads:[~2013-11-27 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-27 20:26 Alexander Baier [this message]
2013-11-27 23:33 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-26 16:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-12-28 12:35 ` Alexander Baier
2014-01-30 0:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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