-<!-- -*- mode: text; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- -->
+# Tips and Tricks for using notmuch with Emacs
-[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
-#Tips and Tricks for using notmuch with Emacs
+One of the more popular notmuch message reading clients is
+**notmuch.el**, an [emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) major
+mode for interacting with notmuch. It is included in the notmuch
+package. This page goes over some usage tips for using notmuch with
+Emacs.
[[!toc levels=2]]
-The main Notmuch message reading client is **notmuch.el**, which is an
-[emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) major mode, and is
-included in the notmuch package.
-
## Setup
To use the Notmuch emacs mode, first add the following line to your
#!/bin/sh
attach_cmds=""
while [ "$1" ]; do
- fullpath=$(readlink --canonicalize $1)
+ fullpath=$(readlink --canonicalize "$1")
attach_cmds="$attach_cmds (mml-attach-file \"$fullpath\")"
shift
done
You can do the same for threads in `notmuch-search-mode` by just
replacing "show" with "search" in the called functions.
-(Starting from notmuch 0.12 use `notmuch-search-tag-thread` instead)
+(Starting from notmuch 0.12 use `notmuch-search-tag-thread` instead,
+starting from 0.13 use `notmuch-search-tag`).
The definition above makes use of a lambda function, but you could
also define a separate function first:
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-tag-message
(if (member "deleted" (notmuch-show-get-tags))
- "+deleted" "-deleted"))))
+ "-deleted" "+deleted"))))
+
+## Adding many tagging keybindings
+
+If you want to have have many tagging keybindings, you can save the typing
+the few lines of boilerplate for every binding (for versions before 0.12,
+you will need to change notmuch-show-apply-tag-macro).
+
+ (eval-after-load 'notmuch-show
+ '(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "`" 'notmuch-show-apply-tag-macro))
+
+ (setq notmuch-show-tag-macro-alist
+ (list
+ '("m" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::moreinfo" "-notmuch::needs-review")
+ '("n" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::pushed")
+ '("o" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::obsolete"
+ "-notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::moreinfo")
+ '("p" "-notmuch::pushed" "-notmuch::needs-review"
+ "-notmuch::moreinfo" "+pending")
+ '("P" "-pending" "-notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::moreinfo" "+notmuch::pushed")
+ '("r" "-notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::review")
+ '("s" "+notmuch::patch" "-notmuch::obsolete" "-notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::moreinfo" "+notmuch::stale")
+ '("t" "+notmuch::patch" "-notmuch::needs-review" "+notmuch::trivial")
+ '("w" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::wip" "-notmuch::needs-review")))
+
+ (defun notmuch-show-apply-tag-macro (key)
+ (interactive "k")
+ (let ((macro (assoc key notmuch-show-tag-macro-alist)))
+ (apply 'notmuch-show-tag-message (cdr macro))))
## Restore reply-to-all key binding to 'r'
## <span id="address_completion">Address completion when composing</span>
-There are currently two solutions to this:
+There are currently three solutions to this:
+
+### bbdb
[bbdb](http://bbdb.sourceforge.net) is a contact database for emacs
that works quite nicely together with message mode, including
address autocompletion.
+### notmuch database as an address book
+
You can also use the notmuch database as a mail address book itself.
To do this you need a command line tool that outputs likely address
candidates based on a search string. There are currently three
(setq notmuch-address-command "/path/to/address_fetching_program")
(notmuch-address-message-insinuate)
+### Google Contacts
+
+[GooBook](http://code.google.com/p/goobook/) is a command-line tool for
+accessing Google Contacts. Install and set it up according to its documentation.
+
+To use GooBook with notmuch, use this wrapper script and set it up like the
+programs above.
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ goobook query "$*" | sed 's/\(.*\)\t\(.*\)\t.*/\2 \<\1\>/' | sed '/^$/d'
+
+You can add the sender of a message to Google Contacts by piping the message
+(`notmuch-show-pipe-message`) to `goobook add`.
## How to sign/encrypt messages with gpg
### Troubleshooting message-mode gpg support
-- If you have trouble with expired subkeys, you may have encounted
+- If you have trouble with expired subkeys, you may have encountered
emacs bug #7931. This is fixed in git commit 301ea744c on
2011-02-02. Note that if you have the Debian package easypg
installed, it will shadow the fixed version of easypg included with