Re: moving the config into the database [was: Re: [PATCH] Display extra headers for emacs-mua - db config option]

Subject: Re: moving the config into the database [was: Re: [PATCH] Display extra headers for emacs-mua - db config option]

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:25:18 -0500

To: David Bremner, David Edmondson, Jameson Graef Rollins, Jorge P. de Morais Neto, Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor

On Wed 2019-12-11 10:00:07 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
>
>> It seems that only “notmuch new” is currently prepared to create a new
>> database, but it will also import all of my email before I have a chance
>> to set the above parameters.
>>
>> It seems that the obvious answer is “notmuch config” will create a
>> database if necessary. Is that the plan?
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to have "notmuch setup" do this?

It has always puzzled me that "notmuch setup" did not actually set up
the database in the first place.  So yes, i think this is the right
answer.

    --dkg
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