notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Arun Isaac]

Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> writes:

> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
>> Do you happen to know if it calls with an empty string as the folder
>> name? It would be consistent with searching for that to insert at the
>> top level.
>
> notmuch insert --folder= or --folder="" does not work:
>
> String argument for option "folder" must be non-empty.
> Unrecognized option: --folder=
>
> It seems that our argument parser doesn't accept empty strings at all,
> which is a bit of a limitation. It would be logical for the empty string
> to work here, and AFAICT the notmuch insert code would handle this if
> the argument was let through the parsing.

I agree. Fixing this in the `notmuch insert' argument parser is a better
solution.