On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 06:03:18AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: >> >> I have taken your advice and have now set up mutt-kz. I have one >> question. Suppose I have a message id. How can I have a command that >> starts mutt and have it show that message (i.e. run the notmuch search >> query and show results)? > > You can take a look at the attached script (you will need to edit a bit, > more later): > > $ mutt-search id:message-id > > will open the whole thread with that particular message id, > > $ mutt-search -m id:message-id > > will open just that single message. > > Instead of id:message-id, you could pass any valid notmuch search query > (properly quoted, of course, to protect from shell expansion) to open > those messages in mutt. If you do not pass any query, the script will > prompt for one (no quoting necessary here). The prompt also has > history, and supports editing with readline. > > Now to get it working in your setup, you should put the promphistory > file some place where it can be sourced, and edit mutt-search > appropriately. Alternately, you could also copy paste the contents of > promphistory in mutt-search or exclude the whole thing for simplicity. > >> Thank you for your continuing guidance and encouragement, Suvayu. > > You are welcome. For notmuch questions, I recommend the notmuch list, > the devs are very friendly. For mutt-kz questions, the mutt-kz list is > good but since the community is small there are few people on it. (I'm > on both) > > If you have questions that are off-topic on either of these lists, > please feel free to contact me directly. However, I'm very busy these > days, so you will have to be a bit patient :).
This is great. I have already learned a lot looking at your script. I really appreciate the time you have taken to help me. I will use mutt-kz for any further questions on this topic. Thank you very much again Suvayu! Xu
