[notmuch] Using notmuch as an address book for tab-completion

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Mon Mar 22 02:04:10 PDT 2010


On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:13:57 +0100, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> > That reminds me that there is still no installation tool for cnotmuch at
> > all. I'll have to have a look into that.
> 
> Hi, I have also a silly question :) Why did you call it cnotmuch? I'd
> expect such a thing to be called pynotmuch or similar. When I saw
> cnotmuch here I had to search other emails to find what it really is.
> Fortunately, with notmuch, I found it very quickly :-D.

Hi Michal,

no silly question at all ;). I found pynotmuch a bit predictive and
boring, and as this is the notmuch bindings to the C-library notmuch, I
just called it 'cnotmuch'. A "pynotmuch" would be a pure python
re-implementation in my mindset...

Just like the c-version of the StringIO module is called cStringIO. etc,
so I am not completely off the track here.

Having that said, I am not particularly attached to that name and can
easily change it. I am in the process of uploading it to pypi.python.org
though, so it will soon be available for a simple local install with
"easy_install cnotmuch".

Next to finding it, the only reference a user will usually only need is
"from cnotmuch import notmuch", the rest is just "notmuch" stuff.

Sebastian


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