From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:42:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111212154221.GN2760@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wra2ay4e.fsf@gmail.com>
Quoth Dmitry Kurochkin on Dec 12 at 2:21 pm:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:15:44 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:31:03 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > >
> > > So here's another idea, prefaced with a rant.
> > >
> > > It's bothered me for a long time that notmuch-emacs didn't just know
> > > by default how to check for new mail. What MUA doesn't know how to
> > > check for new mail? Why does a new user of notmuch have to tell it
> > > how to check for new mail? Of course, this *had* to be configured
> > > before because everyone had their own way of checking for new mail.
> > > Hooks eliminate this unnecessary flexibility and make "notmuch new"
> > > the one true way to check for new mail---as it ought to be---and in
> > > turn make the notmuch-poll-script variable obsolete.
> > >
> > > So, what about changing the default "" setting of notmuch-poll-script
> > > from meaning "do nothing and be useless" to meaning "run notmuch new
> > > (using notmuch-command)"? It will then automatically do the right
> > > thing for new users, while still being backward-compatible and
> > > allowing an escape hatch for bizarre situations.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > So, it could work like this:
> >
> > (defun notmuch-poll ()
> > "FIX DOCSTRING"
> > (interactive)
> > (if (stringp notmuch notmuch-poll-script)
> > (if (string= notmuch-poll-script "")
> > (call-process notmuch-command nil nil nil "new")
> > (call-process notmuch-poll-script))))
> >
> > I.e. in case notmuch-poll-script == nil, (or not string)
> > do nothing. In case notmuch-poll-script == "" execute notmuch new
> > and if notmuch-poll-script is string with content execute that.
> >
>
> I think the following scheme would be slightly better and more
> consistent:
>
> * nil - run "notmuch new", the new default
> * "" - do nothing
> * "script" - run script
>
> Regards,
> Dmitry
I like it!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-11 21:48 [PATCH] emacs: support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script Jani Nikula
2011-12-11 22:00 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-11 22:19 ` Jani Nikula
2011-12-11 22:39 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-11 22:58 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-11 23:10 ` Jani Nikula
2011-12-12 0:31 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-12 0:39 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-12 10:15 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-12-12 10:21 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-12 11:38 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-12-12 15:42 ` Austin Clements [this message]
2011-12-12 19:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Jani Nikula
2011-12-12 20:12 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-12 20:24 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-12 20:50 ` [PATCH v3] " Jani Nikula
2011-12-12 20:53 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-12 21:13 ` Jani Nikula
2011-12-12 21:24 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-12 21:34 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-12-12 21:01 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-15 4:24 ` David Bremner
2012-01-12 17:31 ` Pieter Praet
2012-01-12 17:33 ` [PATCH] emacs: globally replace non-branching "(if (not ..." with "(unless ..." Pieter Praet
2012-01-12 17:40 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2012-01-12 22:10 ` Xavier Maillard
2012-01-13 8:23 ` David Edmondson
2012-01-13 12:42 ` Xavier Maillard
2012-01-13 12:37 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-01-13 13:01 ` David Edmondson
2012-01-14 9:14 ` Pieter Praet
2012-01-14 9:17 ` [PATCH] emacs: globally replace non-branching "(if COND (progn ..." with "(when ..." Pieter Praet
2012-01-28 12:41 ` David Bremner
2012-01-28 12:55 ` Jani Nikula
2012-01-28 17:14 ` David Bremner
2012-01-30 9:23 ` David Edmondson
2012-02-01 13:46 ` Pieter Praet
2012-02-01 14:21 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2012-01-30 7:03 ` Pieter Praet
2012-01-30 7:59 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-02-01 13:46 ` Pieter Praet
2012-01-31 3:34 ` David Bremner
2012-02-01 13:47 ` Pieter Praet
2012-02-01 13:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Pieter Praet
2012-02-01 14:05 ` David Edmondson
2012-02-02 1:31 ` David Bremner
2012-01-14 9:52 ` [PATCH] emacs: globally replace non-branching "(if (not ..." with "(unless ..." Pieter Praet
2012-01-13 16:06 ` David Edmondson
2012-01-14 9:18 ` Pieter Praet
2012-01-15 11:55 ` David Edmondson
2012-01-16 10:56 ` [PATCH v2] " Pieter Praet
2012-01-16 11:06 ` David Edmondson
2012-01-16 12:39 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-01-21 12:21 ` David Bremner
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