On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:38:18 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:32:16 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote: > > In the search view it does exactly this. > > I worry about race conditions in this case, though. I frequently > archive threads after I've read everything, but I still want to know if > new message to that thread come in. If I attempt to archive a thread in > notmuch-search, but a new message has entered the thread without me > knowing it, I'll archive the new message before I had a chance to look > at it.
Just to be clear: The patch in question does not alter this behaviour. The race you describe is there already. And at a glance, it does not look like something that would be trivial to fix. The buffer does not have the information to do that. BR, Jani.