X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=howto.mdwn;h=12bd725e558ae5e87c5fc115c3806c7844f2ca21;hb=38986b74271eadd45bc4a5bd51f6ae06adc8269c;hp=ab5f20d55c344cd6cac0c11e121e6fc6eb686b89;hpb=c5b553374e24e522b3e96d7ca509026b3e0b5798;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/howto.mdwn b/howto.mdwn index ab5f20d..12bd725 100644 --- a/howto.mdwn +++ b/howto.mdwn @@ -26,24 +26,25 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities. * [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/) - See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on intial tagging of messages. + See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of messages. -* **Print only filenames of a search (python bindings)** +* **Use notmuch from python** Notmuch includes python bindings to the notmuch shared library. Extensive API documentation [is - available](http://notmuchmail.readthedocs.org/). + available](http://notmuch.readthedocs.org/). The bindings are very simple to use. As an example, given you have the python bindings installed (or simply set your PYTHONPATH environment variable to point to the .../bindings/python directory), - this script will print the filenames of a matching search: + this snippet will produce a list of mails matching the given + expression: - >>> import notmuch - >>> db = notmuch.Database() - >>> query = db.create_query('tag:inbox AND NOT tag:killed') - >>> list(query.search_messages()) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS - [...] + >>> import notmuch + >>> db = notmuch.Database() + >>> query = db.create_query('tag:inbox AND NOT tag:killed') + >>> list(query.search_messages()) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS + [...] * **Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags** @@ -137,3 +138,7 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities. output. Using the instructions from [Gmane's site](http://gmane.org/export.php), we can download an mbox file, which we can then convert to maildir using mb2md or other utility. + +* **Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch** + + See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]].