Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Tomi Ollila <domo141@gmail.com> wrote:
>> j4ni on irc expressed interest of having an installation option for
>> notmuch-emacs and a notmuch remote access script as 'notmuch'
>>
>> This got me thinking what kind of script would fulfill all the needs
>> that I know of.
>
> This here fulfills all of my needs:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> printf -v ARGS "%q " "$@"
> exec ssh notmuch notmuch ${ARGS}
>
> Keep it simple, I say. The user can (and must) configure all the ssh
> stuff in ~/.ssh/config under "Host notmuch". If there is something
> non-trivial the user must do, taking a trivial script and editing it
> is usually *much* easier than trying to understand a complicated
> script and making that work using environment variables etc. that need
> to be set somewhere.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but then I don't really understand your
desire to have wish (I thought) to have notmuch install this script? Do
you typically have notmuch install into your home directory?

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