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A curses terminal client for the Notmuch email system
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Bad UI behavior when running into Xapian exceptions #16

Closed haasn closed 6 years ago

haasn commented 8 years ago

notmuch new is often run during the background on my system, in particular since it automatically runs whenever new mail gets delivered.

This locks the Xapian DB, which causes bad behavior in bower if bower simultaneously tries to access notmuch. I get Xapian exceptions printed directly onto the terminal, which breaks curses.

wangp commented 8 years ago

There was a patch on the notmuch mailing list recently to wait for the write lock instead of aborting. This problem may resolve itself in time.

Mostly. You may get error messages for failed ssh connections, for example. To be really well behaved bower should capture output from stderr (it might have useful info) then have some way to present it. For now you need to press ^L to repaint the screen.

haasn commented 6 years ago

I think this may have been fixed in the meantime.