Re: [ELPA] New package: gnus-search-mu

[Jai Flack]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Jai Flack <jflack@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>> Hi! Thanks very much for working on this. Wouldn't it make more sense to
>>> include this in Emacs proper? Gnus-search is new enough that it doesn't
>>> seem useful to let users of prior Emacs versions to install
>>> gnus-search-mu from the repos... What do you think?
>>
>> I'm happy for it to be included in Emacs proper; though possibly as both
>> a la modus-themes as it's missed the release window for Emacs 28 (if I
>> understand the release cycle correctly).
>>
>> Shall I convert this to a patch for gnus-search.el?
>
> Sure! Thanks.
>
> Please note that engine custom options like -remove-prefix and
> -config-directory have been moved away from `getenv' to something like:
>
> (expand-file-name "foo" "~")
>
> and it would be nice to stick to that convention.

Sure.

> Otherwise, please make sure that the first line of docstrings are a
> complete sentence, and there's no need for a blank line between the
> first sentence and whatever comes after.

Right.

> Out of curiosity, what is `ansi-color-filter-apply' doing there?

I think I had trouble with mu giving ANSI escape codes to Emacs, it
might no longer be a problem or maybe there is a better solution.

-- 
Thanks,
Jai