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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] cli: move config open/close to main() from\r
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
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+> This allows specifying config file as a top level argument to notmuch,\r
+> and generally makes it possible to override config file options in\r
+> main(), without having to touch the subcommands.\r
+>\r
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+I pushed patchs 5 through 7 of this 6 patch series.\r
+\r
+- I'll see if I can figure out the elisp needed to work around the\r
+ "Tramp stomped on my environment variables" problem.\r
+\r
+- Is this NEWS worthy? \r
+\r
+- What about a unit test?\r
+\r
+- What about updating the tests to use this feature, is that a good idea? \r
+\r
+\r
+d\r