On 05Apr2016 16:28, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote:
* Chris Green <[email protected]> [04-05-16 14:21]:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:47:03PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
> I am so used to using notmuch integrated into mutt (via mutt-kz), that
> I would like to be able to understand how someone does *not* use
> notmuch. How do you search for a certain message? Is it simply a
> matter of the following?
>
> 1. remember which folder it is in
> 2. change to that folder
> 3. use mutt's search
Like others, most of my mailboxes are closely aligned with mailing lists, so
(1) is usually (but not always) fairly easy. Unless I've deleted (move to
archive folder) the relevant messages.
> Further, what if you want all messages from Billy and those messages
> are spread across different folders. What are steps to see all
> messages from Billy?
>
I just have a script that calls mairix:-
mairix $*
Consider using ${1+"$@"}, which preserves quoting.
mutt -f ~/Mail/Tm/mairix
And making a per-search temp folder. I've got a script "notmuch-search" for the
same purpose that makes a temp folder for the result, opens mutt, discards the
folder.
https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/notmuch-search
Of course, that may not be your desired workflow.
For usability, since I open mutt via an alias named "+", eg "+ mutt" to open
the mutt folder, I have aliases "++" to invoke "notmuch-search -S
search-terms..." and "+++" to update the notmuch indices.
So I always do this from outside mutt in an spare window.
This has a big advantage over anything running in an existing mutt
window as I can search for something in another window then refer to
it while I'm composing a mail in the current mutt window.
Me too.
The other tweak I have is that my mutt compose sessions are transparently
spawned into detachable tmux (or screen) sessions so if I block on a new
message I can detach from it and return the the main mutt index. I can open the
compose session in another window and proceed. Possibly weeks later :-(
For example, right now my tmux listing includes:
18 mutt-06apr2016-09_41-Re__How_do_you_survive_without_notmuch_: 1 windows
(created Wed Apr 6 09:41:41 2016) [178x50] (attached)
which is this message.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
