[PATCH] RFC: User-Agent header

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On 2010-04-13, Carl Worth wrote:
> > OK, final post from me on this issue.
> No, wait! I want more from you. :-)

Sigh, they always want more :-)
 
> Would you care to put together a solution that does this from within
> notmuch*.el ? I really want things usable by default without people
> having to hack up their .emacs files.

See the "sister mail" to this thread, in which I simply added the whole
shebang to notmuch.el (not using a lambda function). Is that what you
had in mind. Mind you, my elisp knowledge borders close to 0, so I would
be surprised if I did not botch up things. However, I have tested the
patch, and the User-Agent header got inserted.
 
> Of course, we could also easily add a variable to make this not happen,
> (but that can be added in a follow-on patch by anyone).

Some don't want it, but it cannot be disabled in this patch, so that
would indeed need to be a followup patch.

This gets now inserted (message mode automatically wrapped the header
like this):
User-Agent: notmuch version 0.1-107-g553feae (Emacs
	23.1.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Is that an acceptable format? I would have preferred to not include the
"version" string, but notmuch --version spits that out, and it was just
easier to leave it in. 

Is that "version" really needed, BTW? Why can't notmuch --version not just say:
notmuch 0.1-107-g553feae

Sebastian