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From: Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith@gmail.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: notmuch over ssh
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:52:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2im70gsgg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello.

Thought I'd share a hack I've been using recently. I have my 
notmuch database on another machine. I wanted to access it via my 
local emacs session. I didn't want to ssh in to the machine or 
sync the data to another machine. I realised all communication is 
done via the notmuch binary, so I wrote a wrapper script which 
runs notmuch via ssh:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash  args=()  for var in "$@" do 
      args+=($(printf '%q' "$var")) 
  done  exec ssh real.local -- notmuch "${args[@]}" 

Note I have hardcoded the remote (real.local). I also needed to 
escape arguments since the remote shell had a tendancy to 
interpret them. This escaping isn't fullproof, but has been 
working so far.

I put the above script on my PATH as "notmuch", and emacs 
magically uses it. Alternatively you could set the notmuch-command 
to point to the above shell script.

Cheers,
Keegan

             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-10  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-10  9:52 Keegan Carruthers-Smith [this message]
2021-02-10 10:51 ` notmuch over ssh Tomi Ollila
2021-02-10 11:35   ` Chris Coutinho

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