On Wed, Jul 04 2012, Austin Clements wrote: > This patch series replaces the text format parser used for search in > Emacs with a parser for the JSON format. This should address the > escaping and flexibility problems that have plagued the text format. > Like the text format, it supports incremental output. > > Patches 1-4 simply clean up the Emacs search code and could be pushed > before the rest of the series. Patch 5 switches to the JSON plist > representation internally, but retains the text parser. This requires > some changes to the text parser to keep things working, but don't get > too hung up on them since it's about to get replaced entirely. Patch > 6 adds a test. > > Finally, patches 7 and 8 are the real meat. Patch 7 introduces a > general incremental JSON parser. For search, we could probably get > away with a simpler, hacky approach, but an incremental JSON parser is > the type of thing you only want to write once---hacky or not---and it > seems like the type of thing that could be useful elsewhere, too. > It's general enough to support things like incremental show buffer > rendering. > > Patch 8 rewrites the search output parser to use the JSON format via > this incremental parser. Looks good, works fine, tests pass. I am having those patches applied in this copy of notmuch (emacs mua) I am running and will continue to do so until new series arrives, this will be pushed, or latest patch series go stale (which I hope doesn't happen :) +1 Tomi