Perhaps a case for exec-path-from-shell [1]?

[1] https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell

  --alex

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> On 29. Dec 2022, at 14:20, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> 
> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:
> 
>> I wasn't sure the best way to report a bug against it, so I hope by
>> sending it to thislist it will find its proper home.
> 
> Sure that's fine. Or report a debian bug using reportbug, which saves
> you copying down the relevant versions. In particular it's possibly
> relevant what version of emacs you are using.
>> 
>>   export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=$HOME/.config/notmuch/notmuch.conf
>> 
>> With this setting, I successfully set-up notmuch, created a database,
>> and searched it from the command-line. However, from within emacs, M-x
>> notmuch-hello failed when it would internally send shell command:
>> 
>>   notmuch count --exclude=false
>> 
>> The emacs shell-command error buffer would report "Error: cannot load
>> config file". From outside emacs, that shell command *would* succeed.
> 
> I wasn't able to duplicate this (I'm running the debian packages and
> emacs 28).
> 
> 1) As a first step, try M-x getenv NOTMUCH_CONFIG
> 2) Just to confirm, you're not doing anything fancy with shell wrappers for
>   either emacs or notmuch, are you?
>> 
>> What did work for me was to create a default profile folder and move
>> the config file there.
>> 
>>   export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=""
> 
> Being set to the empty string is not the same as being unset from
> notmuch's point of view. So maybe try unset instead. Empty string means
> no config file is searched for or loaded.
> 
>>   mkdir ~/.config/notmuch/default
>>   mv ~/.config/notmuch/{notmuch.conf,default/config}
>> 
>> But then, in order to be able to continue to use notmuch from the
>> command-line I needed to perform
>> 
>>   export NOTMUCH_CONFIG=$HOME/.config/notmuch/default/config
>> 
>> So it looks like the elisp package isn't checking the file location
>> precedence mentioned in the man pages.
> 
> That definitely should not be the case, but may be potentially related
> to having NOTMUCH_CONFIG="".
> 
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