Re: public-inbox/elfeed -> Maildir bridge (was: Incentives for review)

[Jonathan McHugh]

Hi Kyle,

Lei and B4 look like very cool tools, thanks for the reference!

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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

October 23, 2021 6:19 PM, "Kyle Meyer" <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:

> zimoun writes:
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 21:43, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/?q=dfn:docker&x=A
>> 
>> Oh, that’s really cool!
>> 
>> Do you know a bridge from Elfeed to Message-mode?
>> 
>> I mean, using the feed you are referring, Alice gets:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Title: [bug#50227] [PATCH] build-system/go: Trim store references using the 
>> native compiler option.
>> Author: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:45:37 CEST
>> Feed: dfn:docker - search results
>> Link: https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/20210827164423.17109-1-marius@gnu.org
>> 
>> * guix/build/go-build-system.scm (build): Add '-trimpath' to the 'go install'
>> invocation.
>> […]
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> This is really nice for filtering and only reading what is of interest
>> (for Alice).
>> 
>> However, it is not handy for commenting. It could be cool to have a way
>> to turn what I showed (above) into a reply message. Does a bridge exist
>> somewhere?
> 
> Good question. It does :)
> 
> With the link in the Elfeed buffer, we can grab the mbox for a message
> or entire thread from a public-inbox instance. So, for those that use a
> Maildir locally, the steps are to
> 
> 1) download the message (or thread)
> 2) convert the mbox into Maildir messages
> 3) visit the message in your regular mail client
> 4) proceed as usual
> 
> piem can take care of 1 and 2 (as well as 3, with some user
> configuration) via its piem-inject-thread-into-maildir command:
> 
> https://docs.kyleam.com/piem/Injecting-messages-into-a-Maildir-directory.html
> 
> This command isn't specific to Elfeed buffers. It just needs to be in a
> buffer where piem knows how to grab the public-inbox link:
> 
> https://docs.kyleam.com/piem/Enabling-integration-libraries.html
> 
> The other supported modes that are interesting in this context are EWW
> and Gnus.
> 
> Elfeed -> Notmuch
> =================
> 
> zimoun, I know you're a Notmuch user, so here's how you could configure
> things so that calling piem-inject-thread-into-maildir from the Elfeed
> buffer above throws you into a Notmuch show buffer for the message.
> 
> * add a guix-patches entry to piem-inboxes
> 
> (add-to-list 'piem-inboxes
> '("guix-patches" :url "https://yhetil.org/guix-patches";))
> 
> * point piem to your Maildir
> 
> (setq piem-maildir-directory "/path/to/maildir/")
> 
> Alternatively, messages for different projects can be sent to
> different Maildir directories using the :maildir keyword in the
> piem-inboxes entry. (This feature was added by Xinglu Chen :>)
> 
> * enable Elfeed integration
> 
> (piem-elfeed-mode 1)
> 
> * tell piem to visit the message in Notmuch after injecting
> 
> (add-hook 'piem-after-mail-injection-functions
> (lambda (mid)
> (require 'notmuch-lib)
> (message "Running notmuch new")
> (call-process notmuch-command nil nil nil "new")
> (notmuch-show (concat "id:" mid))))
> 
> You actually asked about ending up in a (Notmuch) message mode buffer
> rather than a Notmuch show buffer. Perhaps tossing a
> notmuch-show-reply in there after notmuch-show will work as expected,
> though I haven't tested it.
> 
> lei
> ===
> 
> This email is already too long, but I should briefly mention that Eric
> Wong (public-inbox's creator) has been working on a local command-client
> client for public-inbox called lei (local email interface).
> 
> To continue with the original dfn example, you could do something like
> this with lei to dump those results to a Maildir and then view those in
> mutt:
> 
> $ lei q -o /tmp/mdir --mua mutt \
> -I https://yhetil.org/guix-patches dfn:docker d:4.months.ago..
> # later: update with new results and visit in mutt
> $ lei up --mua mutt /tmp/mdir
> 
> Anyway, that's just a small piece of what lei can do, and IMO it's
> really impressive and exciting. It will be a part of the next
> public-inbox release, v1.7. (How this all ends up integrating with piem
> is very much up in the air.)
> 
> For a high-level picture that includes public-inbox, lei, and b4:
> Konstantin Ryabitsev, b4's creator, recently talked at the Linux
> Plumbers Conference:
> 
> https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/983/attachments/759/1421/Doing
>  more with lore
> and b4.pdf
> 
> The lei part starts on page 24. I believe there's a video out there,
> but I haven't watched it and don't have a link on hand.