X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=emacstips.mdwn;h=18f1c66540de47ee08f9a5848553fb921a29d784;hb=f5ddc01eb0181124a8449a12afe2587e2304e6fb;hp=070edba3b653a318e2a515d5fcdf44bd1cf92c3e;hpb=5f5765ced6969050be63278f8dc77939571a2489;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/emacstips.mdwn b/emacstips.mdwn index 070edba..18f1c66 100644 --- a/emacstips.mdwn +++ b/emacstips.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,13 @@ - +# 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 @@ -105,29 +104,26 @@ is an option to collect those to a separate file (which is only loaded when `notmuch` is invoked). To do this, write, for example a file called `~/.emacs.d/my-notmuch.el`: - ;; my-notmuch.el -- my notmuch mail configuration - ;; + ;;; my-notmuch.el -- my notmuch mail configuration + ;;; - ;; add here stuff required to be configured *before* - ;; notmuch is loaded; + ;;; add here stuff required to be configured *before* + ;;; notmuch is loaded; - ; uncomment and modify in case some elisp files are not found in load-path - ; (add-to-list 'load-path "~/vc/ext/notmuch/emacs") + ;; uncomment and modify in case some elisp files are not found in load-path + ;; (add-to-list 'load-path "~/vc/ext/notmuch/emacs") - ;; load notmuch + ;;; load notmuch (require 'notmuch) - ;; add here stuff required to be configured *after* - ;; notmuch is loaded; - - ;(setq user-mail-address (notmuch-user-primary-email) - ; user-full-name (notmuch-user-name)) + ;;; add here stuff required to be configured *after* + ;;; notmuch is loaded; - ; uncomment & modify if you want to use external smtp server to send mail - ; (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.server.tld" - ; message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it) + ;; uncomment & modify if you want to use external smtp server to send mail + ;; (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.server.tld" + ;; message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it) -Then, adto `.emacs`: +Then, add to `.emacs`: (autoload 'notmuch "~/.emacs.d/my-notmuch" "notmuch mail" t) @@ -148,10 +144,10 @@ In notmuch versions up to 0.11.x (notmuch-show-add-tag "spam") (notmuch-show-remove-tag "inbox"))) -Starting from notmuch 0.12 (not released yet) the functions -`notmuch-show-add-tag` and `notmuch-show-remove-tag` have changed to -be more versatile and lost noninteractive use. When upgrading to 0.12 -the above needs to be changed to this: +Starting from notmuch 0.12 the functions `notmuch-show-add-tag` and +`notmuch-show-remove-tag` have changed to be more versatile and lost +noninteractive use. When upgrading to 0.12 the above needs to be +changed to this: (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "S" (lambda () @@ -162,12 +158,27 @@ the above needs to be changed to this: 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: + + (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "S" + (lambda () + "mark messages in thread as spam" + (interactive) + (notmuch-show-tag-thread "+spam" "-inbox"))) + +Starting from notmuch 0.13 use `notmuch-search-tag` -- it has a little +different usage syntax: + + (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "S" + (lambda () + "mark messages in thread as spam" + (interactive) + (notmuch-search-tag '("+spam" "-inbox")))) The definition above makes use of a lambda function, but you could also define a separate function first: - (defun notmuch-show-tag-spam() + (defun notmuch-show-tag-spam () "mark message as spam" (interactive) (notmuch-show-add-tag "spam") @@ -187,7 +198,7 @@ key: (notmuch-show-remove-tag "deleted") (notmuch-show-add-tag "deleted")))) -And version for notmuch 0.12 (not released yet) +And version for notmuch 0.12 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d" (lambda () @@ -197,6 +208,34 @@ And version for notmuch 0.12 (not released yet) (if (member "deleted" (notmuch-show-get-tags)) "-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' Starting from notmuch 0.12 the 'r' key is bound to reply-to-sender instead of @@ -340,12 +379,16 @@ emacswiki. ## Address completion when composing -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 @@ -374,6 +417,19 @@ You can perform tab-completion using any of these programs. Just add the followi (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