How to use/integrate "notmuch" with Mutt

[boB Stepp]

On 21/02/09 12:23PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 08Feb2021 17:17, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm not using notmuch's tagging facility; I only use it for search. And
>that infrequently.

It is this facility that I especially find intriguing if I can make it do
what I hope.

>Notmuch itself lives outside mutt. You set it up with "notmuch setup"
>and keep it up to date with the "notmuch new" command. (See "man
>notmuch-setup" and "man notmuch-new".)

I have gathered this much so far.  I will probably go ahead and install it
and notmuch-mutt and see what I can easily make it do.  Apparently NeoMutt
has integrated notmuch-mutt into their distribution.  Out of curiosity, do
the Mutt developers have any inclinations in this direction?

>I've a script for performing a notmuch search and building a result
>Maildir containing the search results, and popping up that Maildir in
>mutt:
>
>    https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/notmuch-search?tip
>
>and I routinely invoke it via a stub script with a shorter name which
>includes the -t option (includes threads containing the matching
>messages).

Will look at this soon, but I wonder if you have independently have
developed similar functionality to what notmuch-mutt is supposed to supply?

>>Can someone clarify what I can and cannot do with notmuch from *within*
>>Mutt?  Provide more informative online articles then perhaps I have found?
>
>You could easily write a mutt macro to invoke such a search from within
>mutt itself. I haven't myself. I just issue a search from the command
>line via my script.

Are you thinking of something like this on the ArchLinux Wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Notmuch#Integrating_with_mutt

-- 
Wishing you only the best,

boB Stepp