From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:40:44 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: using notmuch programmatically from emacs
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Re: using notmuch programmatically from emacs
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>, notmuch
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+Subject: Re: using notmuch programmatically from emacs
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+Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
+
+> Hello,
+>
+> I sometimes have to find a message knowing only its message id. I know
+> how to use a notmuch search in emacs to find the message, then use
+> another function to display it in gnus, but I would like to do it
+> directly without going through the *notmuch-search* buffer.
+>
+> Right now I'm doing the following:
+>
+> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
+>   (defun as/msgid-to-gnus (msgid)
+>     "Search for the MSGID using notmuch, then open the message with
+>   gnus."
+>     (let ((file (shell-command-to-string (concat "notmuch search --output=files 'id:" msgid "'"))))
+
+The structured output formats (sexp, json) include file names, so you
+should be able to use something like the following
+
+(defun notmuch-query-get-message-filenames (&rest search-terms)
+  "Return a list of message-ids of messages that match SEARCH-TERMS"
+  (notmuch-query-map-threads
+   (lambda (msg) (plist-get msg :filename))
+   (notmuch-query-get-threads search-terms)))
+
+This is based on the example at the bottom of notmuch-query.el
+