On Monday, 2018-09-03 at 11:49:09 -04, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Hi! > > Because I have a rather large keyring, fetching new keys or refreshing > old ones takes a long time. When I click on the red red button saying > "Unknown key ID [...] or unsupported algorithm", Emacs freezes for a > good 90 seconds. Considering I use that editor^Wvirtual machine for > nearly everything, it's quite annoying and sends me off browsing the web > in Firefox forever. I end up having a horde of shaven yaks and then > finally remember that I had that key update, by which time I had > forgotten what I was doing reading email in the first place, let alone > what I was doing *before* opening my inbox... > > So. It would be great if Notmuch would run those key updates > asynchronously. I am not sure how that would work: as Bremner said on > IRC, it might make it difficult to update the button automatically. But > I don't mind that: I can refresh the page myself. He suggested running > things in the background when clicking with a prefix (C-u?) but I would > argue that freezing Emacs is just a no-no in general. > > I couldn't find directly what function was called behind that button: > "C-h k" just says it's, obviously, `push-button'. Bremner says it might > be `notmuch-crypto-sigstatus-good-callback' which looks reasonable. I'm > only a junior elisp programmer, but it seems to me the > `notmuch-show-refresh-view' call there could be an asynchronous callback > to an async `make-process' call, as opposed to `call-process', which is > synchronous. > > But I'd like others to chime in here: is this something that would be > accepted? Would the above work? I'm puzzled about the currently expected behaviour based on your question. I have “notmuch-crypto-process-mime” set to t. I *don't* have “keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve” set in my gpg.conf, so I don't expect to get any automatic retrieval of keys (it was annoyingly slow sometimes). When I read a message with a signature using a key that I don't have, I get the expected “Unknown key ID ...” button. If I click on that button a new window appears showing me the details of that key (with a slight delay). The referenced key is *not* imported into my keyring, so updating the view of the message does nothing to change the display of the button - it still says “Unknown key ID ...”. Enabling “auto-key-retrieve” changes this behaviour, as you would expect (I see a delay opening the message while the key is retrieved, and then the button shows it as good). (Caveat: I'm using “remote-notmuch”, so emacs and notmuch/gpg are on different machines, but I don't know that this changes any of the above.) dme. -- She's as sweet as Tupelo honey, she's an angel of the first degree. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch