[PATCH] completion: remove "setup" from the list of possible completions

[Peter Wang]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:22:50 +0200 Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach at samsung.com> wrote:
> It was <2020-06-20 sob 12:53>, when Reto wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:40:49PM +0200, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> >> Having "setup" in the set requires entering three instad of two characters
> >> for "search". Since "setup" is rearly used it makes little sense to have
> >> it in the set and cripple UX for much more frequently used "search".
> >
> > I very much disagree with this patch.
> > The completions should contain all possible values, saving a single keystroke is
> > certainly not a valid reason to remove a valid option from the completions.
> >
> > Write an alias into your bashrc if that bothers you so much... Then you can save
> > much more keystrokes.
> 
> I already have several aliases covering most of my use cases, however, I
> still use "notmuch search" from time to time and I came to a conclusion
> expressed in this patch. Of course, as a random user, I can only suggest
> and by no means insist on applying it.

Another possibility may be to rename "notmuch setup" to "notmuch init",
treating "setup" as a deprecated synonym for "init". The completions
would include "init" but not "setup".

(Just an idea, I don't really care.)

Peter