Notmuch common lisp frontend for Lem

Notmuch common lisp frontend for Lem

[Timmy Douglas]

I've started playing around with an emacs-like text editor/IDE written
in common lisp called Lem (https://github.com/lem-project/lem). Does
anyone know if anyone has created a notmuch frontend in common lisp?

I was thinking about doing it as a project in my free time and thought
I'd post here if anyone had any advice before I get started. I also
created an issue on the Lem side to track:
https://github.com/lem-project/lem/issues/997

Re: Notmuch common lisp frontend for Lem

[David Bremner]

Timmy Douglas <mail@timmydouglas.com> writes:

> I've started playing around with an emacs-like text editor/IDE written
> in common lisp called Lem (https://github.com/lem-project/lem). Does
> anyone know if anyone has created a notmuch frontend in common lisp?

For what it is worth (not too much I suspect) the Emacs front end does
not call the notmuch library API, but rather invokes the CLI, which
generates s-exp output. Presumably lem could do the same.

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Re: Notmuch common lisp frontend for Lem

[Timmy Douglas]

David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:

> For what it is worth (not too much I suspect) the Emacs front end does
> not call the notmuch library API, but rather invokes the CLI, which
> generates s-exp output. Presumably lem could do the same.

Thanks. I noticed this and started with the sexp format, but then moved
to json. I noticed escape sequences like "\n" not being handled as
newlines by the lisp reader, not to mention I was a little weary of
using the common lisp reader to parse the output.

the cli has made it pretty easy to throw something together:

$ wc -l *.lisp
  41 backend.lisp
  49 notmuch-hello.lisp
  18 notmuch.lisp
  51 notmuch-search.lisp
  65 notmuch-show.lisp
  16 package.lisp

https://github.com/lem-project/lem/pull/1048/files
https://timmydouglas.com/assets/notmuch-cl-sample.mkv