From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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