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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
	Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cli/help: give a hint about notmuch-emacs-mua
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:26:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fu8s7xiv.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po7z4zyf.fsf@fifthhorseman.net>

On Thu, Nov 30 2017, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On Thu 2017-11-30 11:08:05 +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 30 2017, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu 2017-10-26 18:27:51 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>>> "notmuch help" doesn't mention "notmuch-emacs-mua" even though we
>>>> support it through the try_external_command() mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> In addition, "notmuch help emacs-mua" doesn't work, even though we
>>>> ship the appropriate manpage.
>>>>
>>>> This changeset fixes both of these problems.
>>>
>>> Ping!  i don't think this patch is complex or objectionable.  Can it be
>>> merged?
>>
>> it may (*) look like we don't have #if WITH_EMACS (**) cpp macros defined ???
>>
>> Tomi
>>
>> (*) did not check...
>>
>> (**) this is emacs-specific stull, less generic that other hints (if that
>> matters) ...
>>
>> Sorry to cause confusion...
>
> confusion is right!  i don't understand what you're saying, sorry.  are
> you suggesting a different change somehow?  Want to propose a different
> patch?

My thought was that even though user may compile notmuch without emacs
support (and notmuch-emacs-mua not installed) we would be hinting 
`notmuch emacs-mua` command to exist.

Tomi

>
>            --dkg

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-26 21:27 [PATCH] cli/help: give a hint about notmuch-emacs-mua Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-30  5:55 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-30  9:08   ` Tomi Ollila
2017-11-30 14:13     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-12-03 13:26       ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2017-12-04 15:44         ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-12-04 18:44           ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-12-04 18:43         ` [PATCH v2] " Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-12-04 20:56           ` Tomi Ollila
2017-12-07 12:31           ` David Bremner

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