Add some explanation about NOTMUCH_BASE to setup_command.

Since we allow the user to enter a custom directory, we need to
let the user know how to make this persistent. Of course, a better
answer would be to take what the user entered and shove it into
a ~/.notmuch-config file or so, but for now this will have to do.
This commit is contained in:
Carl Worth 2009-10-20 10:07:11 -07:00
parent 55c8ee9a86
commit 67a0ee2ebb

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@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ int
setup_command (int argc, char *argv[]) setup_command (int argc, char *argv[])
{ {
notmuch_database_t *notmuch; notmuch_database_t *notmuch;
char *mail_directory; char *mail_directory, *default_path;
int count; int count;
add_files_state_t add_files_state; add_files_state_t add_files_state;
double elapsed; double elapsed;
@ -310,19 +310,32 @@ setup_command (int argc, char *argv[])
"such as mb2md. In that case, press Control-C now and run notmuch again\n" "such as mb2md. In that case, press Control-C now and run notmuch again\n"
"once the conversion is complete.\n\n"); "once the conversion is complete.\n\n");
{
char *default_path = notmuch_database_default_path (); default_path = notmuch_database_default_path ();
printf ("Top-level mail directory [%s]: ", default_path); printf ("Top-level mail directory [%s]: ", default_path);
free (default_path);
fflush (stdout); fflush (stdout);
}
mail_directory = read_line (); mail_directory = read_line ();
printf ("\n");
if (mail_directory == NULL || strlen (mail_directory) == 0) { if (mail_directory == NULL || strlen (mail_directory) == 0) {
if (mail_directory) if (mail_directory)
free (mail_directory); free (mail_directory);
mail_directory = notmuch_database_default_path (); mail_directory = default_path;
} else {
/* XXX: Instead of telling the user to use an environment
* variable here, we should really be writing out a configuration
* file and loading that on the next run. */
if (strcmp (mail_directory, default_path)) {
printf ("Note: Since you are not using the default path, you will want to set\n"
"the NOTMUCH_BASE environment variable to %s so that\n"
"future calls to notmuch commands will know where to find your mail.\n",
mail_directory);
printf ("For example, if you are using bash for your shell, add:\n\n");
printf ("\texport NOTMUCH_BASE=%s\n\n", mail_directory);
printf ("to your ~/.bashrc file.\n\n");
}
free (default_path);
} }
notmuch = notmuch_database_create (mail_directory); notmuch = notmuch_database_create (mail_directory);