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

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Dec 12 08:25:18 PST 2019


On Wed 2019-12-11 10:00:07 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:
>
>> It seems that only “notmuch new” is currently prepared to create a new
>> database, but it will also import all of my email before I have a chance
>> to set the above parameters.
>>
>> It seems that the obvious answer is “notmuch config” will create a
>> database if necessary. Is that the plan?
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to have "notmuch setup" do this?

It has always puzzled me that "notmuch setup" did not actually set up
the database in the first place.  So yes, i think this is the right
answer.

    --dkg
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