I apologize in advance if the issue has already been raised by somebody else
but I couldn't find anything on the bug tracker and furthermore I'm one of
those freaks who prefer a de-cluttered home directory. ;-)

Instead of saving config file in $HOME/.notmuch-config,
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/notmuch}/notmuch-config (notmuchrc is a nice name too)
should be used for unix-based operating systems according to the XDG Base Directory Specification.

As well as keeping the home directory clean, the semantic separation of config,
runtime data, cache data and user-local software by the spec is helpful to users
and other tools (e.g. backup software).

In terms of migration, I would suggest using the xdg-compilant config location
if it exists and falling back to the current default location.

I know someone could decide to run notmuch with the --config switch in order to read from a
different configuration file but I feel the XDG base directory specification is a nice default behavior.
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