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Diffstat (limited to 'mail-overview/waybar-mail.sh')
| -rwxr-xr-x | mail-overview/waybar-mail.sh | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mail-overview/waybar-mail.sh b/mail-overview/waybar-mail.sh index 06f8427..ee07ecb 100755 --- a/mail-overview/waybar-mail.sh +++ b/mail-overview/waybar-mail.sh @@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ emit() { local n n="$(notmuch count "$QUERY" 2>/dev/null)" - # notmuch exits 0 even for a malformed query, printing something that is - # not a count, so the exit status is not the test: the output is. Anything - # that is not a plain number is a failure, and a failure must not render - # as "no new mail". + # The output is the test, not the exit status. notmuch fails two different + # ways: a rejected query prints nothing and exits 1, while a query Xapian + # merely misparses ('tag:unread and ((') returns a plausible wrong number + # and exits 0. Only the first is detectable, and it is the one that matters + # here, because empty output would otherwise render as "no new mail". The + # second is why QUERY is a fixed string and not built from anything. if [[ ! "$n" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then printf '{"text":"!","tooltip":"notmuch count failed","class":"error"}\n' return |