Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes: > On Sun, Feb 17 2019, David Bremner wrote: > >> Seems like reasonable complaint. It should be possible to change to >> the maildir root, but probably requires shelling out to notmuch >> config get the value. > > Hmm. what does other emacs software do in that case ? > > Since OTOH I can think of a situation where I run emacs when located > on a directory. from *scratch* buffer I launch notmuch-hello, then I > press 'm' to compose new mail and c-x i (insert-file) ... Now I'd > expect to be located on the same directory instead of my mail buffer > is suddenly cd'd to totally different location (*) > > Tomi > > (*) that would be comparable annoying like my experience when using > ultimaker cura: have to run it with > $ HOME=$PWD /path/to/cura $PWD/file.stl > to have it working as i'd expect software to locate input and > output directories/files (it sure never default to current dir) I think David's original message was not specific about exactly how the directory might be changed. There are two separable questions here: a) should notmuch-lib.el use whatever `default-directory' was in effect when, say, M-x notmuch was run when running notmuch sub-commands (i.e. when executing `call-process'). b) if (a) is "no", then in what way should `default-directory' be changed? I think (a) is probably "yes" -- it is possible to run M-x notmuch while under any directory, but it makes little sense to run the notmuch sub-commands from the same directory. I think (b) has multiple answers. 1) The `default-directory' could be set to something predictable each notmuch mode (hello, etc.). 2) The `default-directory' could be let-bound to something reasonable, like (expand-file-name "~"), around each call to `call-proccess'. 3) Notmuch could limit option (2) to those cases where the current diretory seems inaccessible. I think (2) is probably the best option. Emacs itself sets a bit of a precedent here. If `default-directory' is a remote file system (I suppose this is tramp?) then `call-process' runs the command under "~" instead. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch