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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Ian <saturns_rings@protonmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [BUG] Minor: config list adds a semi-colon to lists with a
 single item until set
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Ian <saturns_rings@protonmail.com> writes:

> $ notmuch config list
> ...
> search.exclude_tags=spam
>
> ;
>
> <-- Semi-colon
> ...
> $ notmuch config get search.exclude_tags
> spam
> $ notmuch config
>
> set
>
> search.exclude_tags spam
> $ notmuch config get search.exclude_tags
> spam
> $ notmuch config list
> ...
> search.exclude_tags=spam                        <-- No semi-colon

Thanks for the report. It looks like two issues. The main one is that
"notmuch config list" is not sanitizing the input sufficiently, so if
extra ';' are added, they show in the list output. The second is that
notmuch setup is adding ; to single item lists.

d

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