notmuch-vim doesn't respect notmuch config defaults

notmuch-vim doesn't respect notmuch config defaults

[Sergei Shilovsky]

I would suggest to use `notmuch config list` to get configuration
values in vim if possible

Reproduction example follows:

 /home/sh> cat .notmuch-config
 [new]
 tags=new;inbox;unread
 ignore=

 [search]
 exclude_tags=deleted;spam

 [maildir]
 synchronize_flags=false

 /home/sh> notmuch config list
 new.tags=new;inbox;unread
 new.ignore=
 search.exclude_tags=deleted;spam
 maildir.synchronize_flags=false
 database.path=/home/sh/mail
 user.name=Sergei Shilovsky
 user.primary_email=sshilovsky@gmail.com

 /home/sh> vim -c :NotMuch
 Error detected while processing function
<SNR>13_NotMuch..<SNR>13_folders..<SNR>
 13_new_buffer:
 line    6:
 TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String
 Error detected while processing function <SNR>13_NotMuch..<SNR>13_folders:
 line    2:
 NoMethodError: undefined method `query' for nil:NilClass

Having explicit database.path=/home/sh/mail in the configuration file
makes it work

-- 
С уважением,
Сергей Шиловский
Sergei Shilovsky

Re: notmuch-vim doesn't respect notmuch config defaults

[David Bremner]

Sergei Shilovsky <sshilovsky@gmail.com> writes:

> I would suggest to use `notmuch config list` to get configuration
> values in vim if possible

I guess this is a general question we haven't really resolved, namely
sharing configuration information between various notmuch frontends.
.notmuch-config is really the configuration file for the notmuch CLI; it
isn't read by library, so clients using language bindings won't see it
at all by default.

On a somewhat related note I've been thinking how to best associate
configuration information with a database (see e.g. the thread at
id:1411805835-3563-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net ). Note that this
would not help this particular case.

Offhand, I wouldn't be personally to some interface at the library level
wrapping the reading and writing of ~/.notmuch-config, although as I
mentioned before, the size and complexity of notmuch-config.c perturb me
a little as far as being suitable for library code.

d

RE: notmuch-vim doesn't respect notmuch config defaults

[Ian Main]

Sergei Shilovsky wrote:
> I would suggest to use `notmuch config list` to get configuration
> values in vim if possible
> 
> Reproduction example follows:
> 
>  /home/sh> cat .notmuch-config
>  [new]
>  tags=new;inbox;unread
>  ignore=
> 
>  [search]
>  exclude_tags=deleted;spam
> 
>  [maildir]
>  synchronize_flags=false
> 
>  /home/sh> notmuch config list
>  new.tags=new;inbox;unread
>  new.ignore=
>  search.exclude_tags=deleted;spam
>  maildir.synchronize_flags=false
>  database.path=/home/sh/mail
>  user.name=Sergei Shilovsky
>  user.primary_email=sshilovsky@gmail.com
> 
>  /home/sh> vim -c :NotMuch
>  Error detected while processing function
> <SNR>13_NotMuch..<SNR>13_folders..<SNR>
>  13_new_buffer:
>  line    6:
>  TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String
>  Error detected while processing function <SNR>13_NotMuch..<SNR>13_folders:
>  line    2:
>  NoMethodError: undefined method `query' for nil:NilClass
> 
> Having explicit database.path=/home/sh/mail in the configuration file
> makes it work

Right, so you didn't have database.path in your config file before right?
Doesn't the default notmuch setup set that for you?

It wouldn't be too hard to change vim to use 'notmuch config list' to get
its configuration information, but as mentioned a library would be much
nicer.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?  How does the emacs client do it?  If
the config list method is superior I'll write up a patch for it.

   Ian

Re: notmuch-vim doesn't respect notmuch config defaults

[Ian Main]

David Bremner wrote:
> Sergei Shilovsky <sshilovsky@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I would suggest to use `notmuch config list` to get configuration
> > values in vim if possible
> 
> I guess this is a general question we haven't really resolved, namely
> sharing configuration information between various notmuch frontends.
> .notmuch-config is really the configuration file for the notmuch CLI; it
> isn't read by library, so clients using language bindings won't see it
> at all by default.
> 
> On a somewhat related note I've been thinking how to best associate
> configuration information with a database (see e.g. the thread at
> id:1411805835-3563-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net ). Note that this
> would not help this particular case.
> 
> Offhand, I wouldn't be personally to some interface at the library level
> wrapping the reading and writing of ~/.notmuch-config, although as I
> mentioned before, the size and complexity of notmuch-config.c perturb me
> a little as far as being suitable for library code.

I could change the vim client to use notmuch config list easily enough.

Any consensus here?  How does the emacs client do it?  I can make up a patch if
this seems like the right way to go.

Also, someone on IRC mentioned making it so config list could dump JSON
which would make that more reasonable.

    Ian