[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-03-03 Thread David Bremner
Jani Nikula writes: > > Heh, I just wanted to see what the response was first before putting in > the effort to document it. The code comes easy. :) > It turns out this series is actually needed (or would be useful) to fix a bug in the emacs interface; see id:874nguxbvq.fsf at tu-dortmund.de So

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-03-03 Thread David Bremner
Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org writes: Heh, I just wanted to see what the response was first before putting in the effort to document it. The code comes easy. :) It turns out this series is actually needed (or would be useful) to fix a bug in the emacs interface; see

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-13 Thread Mark Walters
> Jameson Graef Rollins writes: > >> But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch >> so incredibly awesome. It's an email swiss army knife that's there when >> you need it. But given that even I often need to look at the man page >> during my occasional CLI usage, I

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread Jani Nikula
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch > so incredibly awesome. It's an email swiss army knife that's there when > you need it. But given that even I often need to look at the man page > during my occasional

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread David Bremner
Jameson Graef Rollins writes: > But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch > so incredibly awesome. It's an email swiss army knife that's there when > you need it. But given that even I often need to look at the man page > during my occasional CLI usage, I just

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Tue, Feb 12 2013, David Bremner wrote: > I don't know if this last is just an off the cuff remark, or it > highlights a difference of opinion. In my view "normal" users of notmuch > use the CLI frequently. Arguably that means we should take even more > care over the design of the UI, if we

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread David Bremner
Jameson Graef Rollins writes: > But you're right that I'm making a pretty arbitrary distinction. The > notmuch CLI already includes options to handle output formatting, > etc. that normal users are probably never going to use in their > infrequent use of the CLI. I don't know if this last is

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread David Bremner
Jameson Graef Rollins jroll...@finestructure.net writes: But you're right that I'm making a pretty arbitrary distinction. The notmuch CLI already includes options to handle output formatting, etc. that normal users are probably never going to use in their infrequent use of the CLI. I

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Tue, Feb 12 2013, David Bremner da...@tethera.net wrote: I don't know if this last is just an off the cuff remark, or it highlights a difference of opinion. In my view normal users of notmuch use the CLI frequently. Arguably that means we should take even more care over the design of the

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread David Bremner
Jameson Graef Rollins jroll...@finestructure.net writes: But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch so incredibly awesome. It's an email swiss army knife that's there when you need it. But given that even I often need to look at the man page during my occasional

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-12 Thread Jani Nikula
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins jroll...@finestructure.net wrote: But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch so incredibly awesome. It's an email swiss army knife that's there when you need it. But given that even I often need to look at the man page

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-11 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Thu, Feb 07 2013, David Bremner da...@tethera.net wrote: In my experience the environment variable is somewhat dangerous to use while testing. If left set to the wrong value, it can lead the loss of tag information. I have never noticed this to be an issue, but if it is variables can be

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-07 Thread Jani Nikula
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29 2013, Jani Nikula wrote: >> Hi all, the goal here is to add support for --config=FILE option at the >> notmuch top level (e.g. 'notmuch --config=FILE search foo'). In order to >> achieve this neatly, I ended up moving config

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-07 Thread David Bremner
Jameson Graef Rollins jroll...@finestructure.net writes: Is there some benefit to having a command line option for this that I don't see? In my experience the environment variable is somewhat dangerous to use while testing. If left set to the wrong value, it can lead the loss of tag

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-06 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Tue, Jan 29 2013, Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org wrote: Hi all, the goal here is to add support for --config=FILE option at the notmuch top level (e.g. 'notmuch --config=FILE search foo'). In order to achieve this neatly, I ended up moving config open/close to main() from subcommands. This

Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-02-06 Thread Jani Nikula
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins jroll...@finestructure.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 29 2013, Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org wrote: Hi all, the goal here is to add support for --config=FILE option at the notmuch top level (e.g. 'notmuch --config=FILE search foo'). In order to achieve this

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-01-29 Thread Jani Nikula
Hi all, the goal here is to add support for --config=FILE option at the notmuch top level (e.g. 'notmuch --config=FILE search foo'). In order to achieve this neatly, I ended up moving config open/close to main() from subcommands. This isn't a bad thing, because all notmuch commands opened the

[PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

2013-01-29 Thread Jani Nikula
Hi all, the goal here is to add support for --config=FILE option at the notmuch top level (e.g. 'notmuch --config=FILE search foo'). In order to achieve this neatly, I ended up moving config open/close to main() from subcommands. This isn't a bad thing, because all notmuch commands opened the