From: Scott Barker Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:03:32 +0000 (+1800) Subject: Re: Bug#628018: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt utility for notmuch/contrib/ X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50525db122b51920aaf47baa5f2f24a070e34e68;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Bug#628018: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt utility for notmuch/contrib/ --- diff --git a/a7/83978be2ff63f8a54b6e1f420f393478c0e400 b/a7/83978be2ff63f8a54b6e1f420f393478c0e400 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2b2ed3555 --- /dev/null +++ b/a7/83978be2ff63f8a54b6e1f420f393478c0e400 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7B9431FAF + for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:03:40 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id XupYxb611B9r for ; + Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:03:39 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from aguila.mostlylinux.ca (aguila.ca [184.71.238.186]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B4D431FAE + for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:03:39 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mostlylinux.ca (unknown [10.0.0.128]) + by aguila.mostlylinux.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4C3918C807B; + Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:03:37 -0600 (MDT) +Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:03:32 -0600 +From: Scott Barker +To: Stefano Zacchiroli +Subject: Re: Bug#628018: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt utility for notmuch/contrib/ +Message-ID: <20120326190332.GE6677@aguila.ca> +References: <87ehsfr6lb.fsf@zancas.localnet> + + <87d37zl7qe.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> + <20120326152902.GA11610@upsilon.cc> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 +Content-Disposition: inline +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit +In-Reply-To: <20120326152902.GA11610@upsilon.cc> +User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:03:40 -0000 + +FYI, I use the following in my .muttrc, which includes an expansion of $HOME +in , and it works fine: + + macro index / "mutt-notmuch --prompt search$HOME/.cache/mutt_results" "notmuch search" + +On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:29:02PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: +> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:09:13AM -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: +> > > Another thing is this .cache hardcoding. Should this be resolved +> > > first by using $XDG_CACHE_HOME, (then *MAYBE* $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.cache) +> > > and finally $HOME/.cache +> > +> > These are good points. I agree that since ~/.cache is an XDG standard +> > we should resolve the appropriate environment variables. +> +> Heya, thanks for your feedback. I agree as well! +> +> But while it's trivial to make notmuch-mutt itself support +> $XDG_CACHE_HOME, it is less so for the Mutt configuration snippet +> (i.e. the notmuch-mutt.rc file which is part of my submission). AFAICT +> the function does not support variable +> expansions, not to mention default values while doing so. As a result, I +> can easily support $XDG_CACHE_HOME for, say, the history file, but I +> don't know how to make mutt look in some $XDG_CACHE_HOME derived +> directory. (Yes, I'm excluding hackish solutions like have mutt look +> always in the same dir, and make that dir a "moving" symlink that will +> be changed by notmuch-mutt upon execution. That seems to defeat the +> benefits of the XDG specification, at least partly.) +> +> Bottom line: I'll be happy to properly support $XDG_CACHE_HOME, but I'm +> in need on suggestions of how to do so for the Mutt configuration part. +> +> > If notmuch-mutt is accepted into notmuch upstream then it really becomes +> > a part of notmuch and isn't really "public" anymore (at least in the +> > sense that you're using). So I don't really see any problem with having +> > it use ~/.cache/notmuch. +> +> My thought exactly. +> +> The proposal of documenting how people should use ~/.cache/notmuch is +> great, but I was hoping it can be overlooked for contrib stuff that has +> been vetted by you folks. +> +> Thanks for your help (and for notmuch!) +> Cheers. +> -- +> Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . +> Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o +> Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o +> « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » +> _______________________________________________ +> notmuch mailing list +> notmuch@notmuchmail.org +> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch + +-- +Scott Barker +Linux Consultant +scott@mostlylinux.ca +http://www.mostlylinux.ca