bugreport: notmuch-hello (debian package elpa-notmuch 0.37-1)

[Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>]

I wasn't sure the best way to report a bug against it, so I hope by
sending it to thislist it will find its proper home.


Summary: notmuch-hello not respecting notmuch file search order

In debian, I installed debian packages notmuch and elpa-notmuch,
versions 0.3701, and proceeded with the command-line setup process. Per
the FILES section of man(1) notmuch-config, I first performed:

   export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=$HOME/.config/notmuch/notmuch.conf

With this setting, I successfully set-up notmuch, created a database,
and searched it from the command-line. However, from within emacs, M-x
notmuch-hello failed when it would internally send shell command:

   notmuch count --exclude=false

The emacs shell-command error buffer would report "Error: cannot load
config file". From outside emacs, that shell command *would* succeed.

Repeating the notmuch setup process with the environment variable unset
did not help for me.

What did work for me was to create a default profile folder and move
the config file there.

   export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=""
   mkdir ~/.config/notmuch/default
   mv ~/.config/notmuch/{notmuch.conf,default/config}

But then, in order to be able to continue to use notmuch from the
command-line I needed to perform

   export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=$HOME/.config/notmuch/default/config

So it looks like the elisp package isn't checking the file location
precedence mentioned in the man pages.

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