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37 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:58:22 -0500
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38 From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
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39 To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
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40 Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
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41 Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
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79 Quoth Dmitry Kurochkin on Dec 12 at 2:00 am:
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82 > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:48:20 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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83 > > Let notmuch-poll-script be a function as well as a string. Make default
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84 > > value nil instead of an empty string, but allow "" for backwards
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85 > > compatibility. Add a notmuch poll function to call "notmuch new" using the
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86 > > configured notmuch-command.
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88 > > This allows taking better advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs
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89 > > without intermediate scripts.
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92 > I was just thinking about working on this myself :)
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94 > I think a better solution would be to allow running a command with
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95 > arguments. Creating a elisp function just to run a command with some
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96 > parameters feels wrong. This way we would have to add another function
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97 > each time we want to add another argument.
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99 This seems a little awkward to me, too, though perhaps it's the best
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100 way. Other approaches to consider include accepting a list for
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101 notmuch-poll-script (e.g., ("notmuch" "new")) or leaving it as a
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102 string but treating it as a shell command so "notmuch new" would Just
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103 Work. Personally, I think the latter is the most intuitive, but it
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104 would be worth looking at how other customizable external commands are
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107 A function seems powerful, but also like overkill. Can you give a use
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108 case for a function that wouldn't be more easily solved by one of the
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