Bored on a Sunday morning and ended up watching Emacs For Writers – a presentation by Jay Dixit, who I'm going to have to look into more, since he seemed like a cool person. It was about how he learned to use org mode to do the work that several word processing programs didn't quite do. He had a lot of fun customizations in his emacs and I might have to watch it again when I'm bored to work out somee other neat things to change. I think it might also finally be time to put my ~/.emacs.d into git so I can get at it on multiple computers and share the things I find at work/home with myself.

One of the things that flashed by in the video was notmuch, the emacs mail browser. Email is more of a pain in the butt than anything useful, these days, as family and friends use phones to contact me and work primarily uses a chat system, but what the hell, I thought, let's try doing email in emacs again (I'd previously tried gnus).

I primarily used the guide here, with some tweaks from here. Ended up modifying the latter a bit to gel with the GObject Introspection that might have come into existence after the wiki-page/python module were written. Works fine with it, though.


import gi
gi.require_version('GnomeKeyring', '1.0')
import keyring

def get_password(account):
    return keyring.get_password('offlineimap', account)


It turns out that setting up offlineimap is the bulk of the work and doesn't run automatically, so I basically would need to automate running it or check my mail manually in a two-step offlineimap -> notmuch workflow? I probably won't actually continue using it, but we'll see!