[Laura Conrad] Re: Notmuch as search engine

[Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org>]

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Sorry, forgot to send this to the list as well as to Eric.


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From: Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Notmuch as search engine
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:53:11 -0400
Message-ID: <87tuay16co.fsf@laymusic.org>

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
    >> Am I running notmuch wrong?  Lots of people (including people on this
    >> list) seem to be using it with gnus, so it must be possible.

    Eric> The format of notmuch's search results depends on the switches it is
    Eric> called with. If you use "--output=files" it will give you filenames.

Thanks, that gives me reasonable output from the command line.  But
adding that to the Nnir Notmuch Additional Switches option in the
customize buffer doesn't seem to change what I get from gnus.

    Eric> I'm curious how you're using notmuch from within Gnus. Both the "old"
    Eric> nnir library and the "new" gnus-search library know to use the correct
    Eric> --output switch. What version of Emacs/Gnus are you using?

GNU Emacs 27.2.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2022-01-27

Gnus V 5.13

I have also tried it on:

GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.14)
 of 2020-03-26

also with 
Gnus V 5.13

My .emacs does have:

'(nnir-notmuch-additional-switches '("--output=files"))

in the section that the configure writes.

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