Bug#628018: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt utility for notmuch/contrib/

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:03:32PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> FYI, I use the following in my .muttrc, which includes an expansion of $HOME
> in <change-folder-readonly>, and it works fine:
> 
>   macro index / "<shell-escape>mutt-notmuch --prompt search<enter><change-folder-readonly>$HOME/.cache/mutt_results<enter>" "notmuch search"

Right, but I need support for variable expansions with defaults, because
there's no guarantee that $XDG_CACHE_HOME is defined in user
environment. I.e., I need the equivalent of shell ${name:-default}
idiom.

AFAICT that is not supported by Mutt natively. Hence the need of
resorting to shell escaping.

Hope this explains,
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