Changed remote-usage script to use bash printf to quote special chars.

[notmuch-wiki] / remoteusage.mdwn

diff --git a/remoteusage.mdwn b/remoteusage.mdwn
index 24d28ef043a269b241658ebed76f20de7d983061..1ecd3aa4aed638b589561f19e021ec4a59b773c8 100644 (file)
--- a/remoteusage.mdwn
+++ b/remoteusage.mdwn
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ You will need to have the following items in place:
 2.  a working notmuch emacs interface on another computer (let's call
 that computer "client")
 3.   password-free login (public key authentication) from client to
-server. [Here](http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/) is a
+server. [Here](http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152) is a
 good page on how to set it up.
 4.   a reasonably fast connection. (This isn't really *neccessary*, but
 if your connection is too slow, this won't be very pleasant to use,
@@ -79,21 +79,21 @@ be necessary in the furture.
         [ -d "${CACHE}" ] || mkdir -p "${CACHE}"
         CMD=$1
         shift
-       # we need to a little sanitizing of msg ids so the shell
+        # we need to a little sanitizing of msg ids so the shell
         # doesn't mangle them
-        ARGS=`echo $@ | sed 's/\\$/\\\\$/g'`
+        printf -v ARGS "%q " "$@"      
         $SSH_BIN $USER@$SSH_HOST $NOTMUCH_REMOTE_BIN ${CMD} ${ARGS}
     }
     
     notmuch_search ()
     {
-        #COUNTER=1 
         notmuch_run search $@ |
         while read line; do
-       sleep 0.02
-       #[ $((COUNTER % 3)) == "0" ] && sleep 0.03
-               echo "${line}"
-       #COUNTER=$((COUNTER + 1))
+           sleep 0.02   # Workaround a bug (missing lines) in the emacs interface
+                         # NOTE: This workaround is no longer necessary as of 
+                         # git rev eead2382. You can just run 
+                         # `notmuch_run search $@'                      
+            echo "${line}"
         done
     }
     
@@ -101,12 +101,12 @@ be necessary in the furture.
     notmuch_show ()
     {
         if [ ${1} = "--format=raw" ]; then 
-       hashed=`hash_name ${2}`
-               check_for_file_name ${hashed} || 
-       notmuch_run show --format=raw ${2} > "${CACHE}/${hashed}"
-               cat "${CACHE}/${hashed}"
+           hashed=`hash_name ${2}`
+            check_for_file_name ${hashed} || 
+           notmuch_run show --format=raw ${2} > "${CACHE}/${hashed}"
+            cat "${CACHE}/${hashed}"
         else 
-               notmuch_run show $@
+            notmuch_run show $@
         fi
     }