[PATCH] emacs: Try to name search buffers using info in notmuch-folders

[Servilio Afre Puentes]

On 21 April 2010 20:10, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:55:50 -0400, Servilio Afre Puentes <servilio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As the user has already defined aliases for certain searches in
>> notmuch-folders, search buffer names that use these aliases will
>> be easier to identify.
>
> A lovely feature, thanks!

My pleasure! Thanks to you for notmuch!

> I've pushed this out now (along with a tiny follow-up to avoid a warning
> From the emacs compiler).

Great, I noticed that when building, but as everything worked fine
afterwards, I decided to wait to get some feedback on the list. But
you were faster!

> It does occur to me that once we have saved searches supported at a
> lower level within notmuch, then this functionality won't be needed in
> the emacs interface at all, (since the nice name and the search strings
> will then be equivalent).

Yep.

> And this patch even makes a proposal for what the saved-search syntax
> could be. It uses "[ inbox ]" for a saved search named "inbox". I
> believe that sup is already using "{inbox}" for a similar
> feature. Perhaps a bracketed style like that is what we want.

For me it was the easier thing to read, I suppose that this can be
made to be customizable so the user can set it up to be whatever is
easier to read.

Servilio