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

[Jorge P. de Morais Neto]

Hello.

Em [2019-12-09 seg 13:31:22-0500], Daniel Kahn Gillmor escreveu:

> One problem with such a "perennial text file" is that people will want
> to edit it.  When they do, what should happen?

Well, the file could be named "notmuch-config-view" and the contents
could include comments explaining it is just a view.  Besides, the
generation of such a file could be opt-in.

I hope you don't mind my insistence (it is my personality) and, of
course, there is still the problem of slightly increasing Notmuch's
complexity to provide a small benefit for relatively few people.  It is
(obviously) your call, since you understand much more about the Notmuch
codebase (and free/libre software development in general) than me.
Besides, it is not me who am going to actually implement this (I am
unfortunately unable to contribute C code to Notmuch at this moment).

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