mu4e-action-show-thread fails when message was opened from an org-capture link

[Ben Maughan]

If I follow a link from an org-mode buffer, it takes me to the message in a mu4e-view buffer, but if I then use the action mu4e-action-show-thread I receive an error

[mu4e] cannot find message in headers buffer.

A crude work around is to quit the view buffer before executing the search by modifying the action to

(defun mu4e-action-show-thread (msg)
  "Show all messages that are in the same thread as the message
at point."
  (let ((msgid (mu4e-message-field msg :message-id)))
    (when msgid
      (let ((mu4e-headers-show-threads t)
            (mu4e-headers-include-related t))
        (mu4e~view-quit-buffer) ;; added this line
        (mu4e-headers-search
         (format "msgid:%s" msgid))))))

Is there a better way to do this?

Also, is it possible to highlight (by changing the face) the message with the searched for msgid in the resulting mu4e-headers buffer that shows the thread?

Cheers,
 Ben

[Josiah Schwab]

Hi Ben,

> If I follow a link from an org-mode buffer, it takes me to the message
> in a mu4e-view buffer, but if I then use the action
> mu4e-action-show-thread I receive an error
>
> [mu4e] cannot find message in headers buffer.
>

> [...snip...]

>
> Is there a better way to do this?

I believe this issue is no longer present in the development version.

There were some changes about a month ago that mean org-mode links now
do use a headers buffer. See commits

https://github.com/djcb/mu/commit/7ac492190257d6dc07d1adefb5bfe8bbaeeab3b3
https://github.com/djcb/mu/commit/74691afde8a2502648bb749e3411cd6ced69ba0f
https://github.com/djcb/mu/commit/eab45dc88d18429f4011a776ee4329f5b9dde11a

Hope that helps,
Josiah

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Indeed.

Opening a message by its message-id used to be 'special', so there was
no headers buffer connected. But since those commits, we first do a
normal search, then automatically open the message whose message-id we
were looking for.

Kind regards,
Dirk.


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