Re: [PATCH] emacs: hello: tell the user about help and notmuch customization

Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: hello: tell the user about help and notmuch customization

Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 12:42:33 -0400

To: Jani Nikula, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

> Make it easier for new users to find out about thing in notmuch-emacs.
> ---
>  emacs/notmuch-hello.el | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el
> index b42e0f24148a..738baad23b20 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el
> @@ -915,12 +915,19 @@ following:
>        (widget-insert "Edit saved searches with the `edit' button.\n"))
>      (widget-insert "Hit RET or click on a saved search or tag name to view matching threads.\n")
>      (widget-insert "`=' to refresh this screen. `s' to search messages. `q' to quit.\n")
> +    (widget-insert "`?' in each Notmuch screen to display help for the current mode.\n")
> +    (widget-insert "Customize ")
> +    (widget-create 'link
> +		   :notify (lambda (&rest ignore)
> +			     (customize-group 'notmuch))
> +		   :button-prefix "" :button-suffix ""
> +		   "Notmuch")
> +    (widget-insert " or ")
>      (widget-create 'link
>  		   :notify (lambda (&rest ignore)
>  			     (customize-variable 'notmuch-hello-sections))
>  		   :button-prefix "" :button-suffix ""
> -		   "Customize")
> -    (widget-insert " this page.")
> +		   "this page.")
>      (let ((fill-column (- (window-width) notmuch-hello-indent)))
>        (center-region start (point)))))

Unfortunately this breaks some tests.

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