Handling PATCH from notmuchmail

[Michal Sojka]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> out of curiosity, how hackers on this mailing list and using notmuch
> (through GNU Emacs client if at all) do handle all the patches sent here
> ?
> 
> I mean, what commands/keystrokes do you use in order to apply your
> patches ?

If I see a patch that I want to try I do:

M-x cd <RET> ~/src/notmuch <RET>
| git am <RET>

Then I manually switch to *notmuch-pipe* buffer to see whether the
command failed or not. It would be nice if *notmuch-pipe* buffer is
shown automatically when the command exits with non-zero status.

-Michal