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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Jani Nikula\r
+ <jani@nikula.org>\r
+Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH v2] modified notmuch-emacs-mua v2\r
+In-Reply-To: <1421776424-24304-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+References: <1421598115-4889-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net>\r
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+Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:58:51 +0100\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+\r
+> This is second draft patch of (first being)\r
+>\r
+> id:1405026779-29966-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi\r
+>\r
+> I saw potential problem with only supporting emacsclient(1) in\r
+> the version David sent:\r
+> id:1421598115-4889-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net\r
+>\r
+> (no emacs server running and no tty -- new X client not started)\r
+>\r
+\r
+I don't understand what use case is failing for you. I think I tested\r
+all 4 combinations of DISPLAY set and unset and emacs server running and\r
+not running. Do you somehow want to run the notmuch-emacs-mua script\r
+from a process not attached to a terminal (from cron?).\r
+\r
+> In case emacsclient(1) is used and no --no-window-system, '-c' arg is\r
+> given to emacsclient like in the version David sent.\r
+>\r
+> (this means that if emacs is not running on X, user may get this message:\r
+> "emacsclient: could not get terminal name" -- we need to document user\r
+> to give -nw (--no-window-system) option then)\r
+\r
+As I wrote above, I'm missing what the tradeoff is. The version I sent\r
+works fine (at least for me) in the case where DISPLAY is not set and\r
+--no-window-system is not given (i.e. it's implied if DISPLAY is not\r
+set).\r
+\r
+d\r