Hallo! On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:06:20 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote: > Is there a reason you keep the remaining data in a string instead of > taking the more idiomatic elisp approach of leaving it in the process > buffer? In fact, the code would probably be simpler if you > immediately appended the string to the process buffer like a normal > process-filter and then peeled things away using buffer-oriented > regexp functions like looking-at. Elisp is a lot better at > manipulating buffers than it is at manipulating strings.
Ha, I hear you -- this is what I meant to do originally. But then, the save-in-string approach (even though I always considered keeping state in the string a bit ugly) seemed more simple to me. As I said: writing elisp code is not my primary profession... :-) (Perhaps I should buy a book about it, or something.) Now that you confirmed my original idea, I'll see about re-writing the code accordingly, so thanks for the input! Gr??e, Thomas -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 489 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110203/4b4df877/attachment.pgp>
