moving the config into the database [was: Re: [PATCH] Display extra headers for emacs-mua - db config option]

[Jorge P. de Morais Neto]

Em [2019-11-22 sex 10:43:40+0800], Daniel Kahn Gillmor escreveu:

> Better than documenting, i'd be happy if we would add a "notmuch config
> edit" subcommand, which handles the above sequence for you, invoking
> $EDITOR at the appropriate time.
>
> The only caveat i see there is if the end user wants to inject comments
> in the config file, which would then be stripped out in between these
> invocations.  perhaps someone who finds these comments in config files
> super important could propose a way to stash them in the db and recover
> them during "notmuch config edit" as well :)

I sync my two Notmuch configuration files -- personal notebook and
workplace desktop -- over Unison via a USB flash drive.  This way, when
I want to reconfigure Notmuch in one machine, I have the other machine's
configuration as reference.  However, I do not sync the entire Notmuch
databases because, since they are big and change frequently, I suppose
they would wear the USB flash drive and also increase the
synchronization time.

Thus for my use case it would be useful if "notmuch config edit" could
automatically keep a perennial text file reflecting the configuration in
the database.  That text file would then be synchronized by Unison.

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