On Thu, Jun 03 2021, Tory S. Anderson wrote: > Nice follow-upabout what other browsers do! > > David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > >> Tomi Ollila <tomi.oll...@iki.fi> writes: >> >>> On Mon, May 31 2021, David Bremner wrote: >>> >>>> Tomi Ollila <tomi.oll...@iki.fi> writes: >>>>> >>>>> I am for 'ripping the bandage off' and not configure mail-user-agent >>>>> outside of notmuch use (and just require 'notmuch would not set >>>>> anything...) >>>>> >>>>> Could we have some 'compose-mail' variant (different name, of course; >>>>> I had one in mind but then came off-by one problem... >;) which >>>>> configures mail-user-agent just for that use (or something). >>>>> >>>> >>>> Are you thinking about notmuch-mua-mail (which exists)? >>>> >>>> Tory, did you try the eval-after-load trick I mentioned btw? That seemed >>>> to work in my testing, and I'm just not sure that customizing a >>>> notmuch-* variable is much less annoying than adding an eval-after-load to >>>> reset the variable after notmuch messes with it. > > No, I'm guilty here. I used my patch instead and haven't looked back > since. I think having to add code lines to an init file is much more > annoying (and less transparent) than simply having something for which I > can add a =:custom= line in my use-package statements, or new users just > use the customizer to explore to. Maybe that's just me, but I feel much > more comfortable about sharing that config or that suggestion with > others, too. Explorability is what customizer's big benefit to emacs is, > so it seems to me a real advantage to have this in there. >
mail-user-agent is defcustom in simple.el, starting: (defcustom mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent "Your preference for a mail composition package. Various Emacs Lisp packages (e.g. Reporter) require you to compose an outgoing email message. This variable lets you specify which mail-sending package you prefer. Valid values include: `message-user-agent' -- use the Message package. See Info node `(message)'. `sendmail-user-agent' -- use the Mail package. See Info node `(emacs)Sending Mail'. `mh-e-user-agent' -- use the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. See Info node `(mh-e)'. `gnus-user-agent' -- like `message-user-agent', but with Gnus paraphernalia if Gnus is running, particularly the Gcc: header for archiving. Additional valid symbols may be available; check with the author of your package for details. The function should return non-nil if it succeeds. ... Currently if one uses/used customizer to change to something else, which is saved to .emacs (or somewhere else where custom-file points to), and then loads notmuch, it suddenly changes to 'notmuch-user-agent. AFAIU the change your patch did does not change that, one just has to customize notmuch-mail-user-agent. IMO that makes things messy. If there were option to somehow magically add more values to the mail-user-agent customize menu while loading notmuch.el then one could just directly choose notmuch-user-agent from that menu. Otherwise I don't see other options than document how to do that configuration (and drop that setq and add NEWS entry). Tomi >>>> >>>> Still waiting for feedback from notmuch users that actually use M-x >>>> compose-mail or other similar generic entry points. >>> >>> Does anyone know how compose-mail behaves when one has loaded any other >>> emacs mua (mh, vm, gnus, mu, ...) ? >>> >> >> As far as I can tell >> >> vm: only locally binds mail-user-agent >> mh-e: used to have a setq mail-user-agent, removed in 2003-ish >> mu4e: documents how to set mail-user-agent >> rmail: reads mail-user-agent, but does not set >> gnus: only locally binds mail-user-agent >> wanderlust: tells you how how to set mail-user-agent (and oddly, how >> to define conditionaly define a user agent) >> >> So I think notmuch is the odd one out here. >> _______________________________________________ >> notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org > To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org