On Tue,  6 Dec 2011 15:22:36 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Hi all, this is v3 of the notmuch hooks patches. I think this is nearing
> completion apart from final review and, most notably, tests.

Hey, Jani.  Thanks so much for these patches.  I think this is a really
neat idea and it will be very useful.  I already know that this will cut
out a lot of extraneous shell scripting that I'm relying on now.

> I've been using this for some days now, and (subjective as it is) I have to say
> I like offlineimap being run from notmuch new "pre-new" hook much better than
> vice versa. Even more so for "post-new" tagging scripts.

I think the only thing that I was not particularly clear about is that I
guess the "pre-new" and "post-new" scripts actually need to be scripts
named "pre-new" and "post-new" in the hooks directory.  For some reason
I didn't quite grok that from the help pages, and was confused if I
needed to make a new "pre-new" subdirectory in the hooks directory or
what.  I think just expecting a script at hook/pre-new is fine, but it
maybe could be made a little more explicit in the documentation.

In fact, I think the best thing would actually be for notmuch new to
make the .notmuch/hooks directory itself and to pre-fill it with "turned
off" hook scripts that contain some useful comments on how to use them.
This is what git does, and I think it's very handy, since it's all
fairly self documenting.  The notmuch help could then just refer to the
fact that they're there, and point people to the comments in the various
scripts for how to use them.

jamie.