Support notmuch database paths without leading /

[polyzen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Avoid storing one's system username in one's dotfiles repo.

Describe the solution you'd like
"Database paths without a leading / are relative to $HOME":
notmuch/notmuch@95a9c73
https://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2019/027762.html
afewmail/afew#233

Describe alternatives you've considered
Tried applying the above patch to notmuch, but that didn't suffice.

[pazz]

I'm not sure what kind of change exactly you want.
Have you seen the -p command line argument to alot?

[polyzen]

Support relative path for database location

As of notmuch 0.28, a relative path may be provided for the database
location. notmuch prepends $HOME/ to the relative path. For feature
parity, afew now supports the same methodology of prepending $HOME/ if a
relative path is provided.

[pazz]

I find this totally strange tbh: if i pass on -p ../this/or/that as a command line parameter to alot then I'd expect it refers to the given path relative to the current directory, and not $HOME.
If afew nowadays does this differently so be it. I don't really feel responsible to replicate such funky behaviour in the name of consistency.

[polyzen]

The behavior of -p doesn't have to change, but supporting upstream's handling of the database path makes sense to me.

[pazz]

So this is about the path config option (in alot's config file)? Fine. Feel free to submit a PR proposing this change. thx Quoting Daniel M. Capella (2019-05-12 16:50:44)

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[polyzen]

Can't seem to find the alot's path config. I meant the path alot gets from notmuch itself.

[polyzen]

https://github.com/afewmail/afew/pull/233/files

[polyzen]

Can't seem to find the alot's path config. I meant the path alot gets from notmuch itself.

https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration/config_options.html?highlight=path

Could I be pointed in the right direction?

[pazz]

https://github.com/pazz/alot/blob/master/alot/__main__.py#L36 It is taken from the environment var "NOTMUCH_CONFIG" and defaults to "~/.notmuch-config". HTH, Best, P

[kirelagin]

I’m surprised this hasn’t been fixed yet :/. Let me give it a shot.

[pazz]

I guess this relates to #1495 ?