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From: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:52:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] * add muile/README with some basic instructions

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+* README
+
+** What is muile?
+
+  `muile' is a little experiment/toy using the equally mu guile bindings, to be
+  found in libmuguile/ in the top-level source directory.
+
+  `guile'[1] is an interpreter/library for the Scheme programming language[2],
+  specifically meant for extending other programs. It is, in fact, the
+  official GNU language for doing so.
+
+  The combination of mu + guile is called `muile', and allows you to write
+  little Scheme-programs to query the mu-database, or inspect individual
+  messages. It is still in an experimental stage, but useful already.
+
+** How do I get it?
+
+   The git-version and the future 0.9.7 version of mu will automatically build
+   muile if you have guile. I've been using guile 2.x from git, but installing
+   the 'guile-1.8-dev' package (Ubuntu/Debian) should do the trick (I did not
+   test with 1.8 though).
+
+   Then, configure mu. The configure output should tell you about whether guile
+   was found (and where). If it's found, build mu, and toys/muile should be
+   created, as well.
+
+** What can I do with it?
+   
+   Go to toys/muile and start muile. You'll end up with a guile-shell where you
+   can type scheme [1], it looks something like this (for guile 2.x):
+
+   ,----
+   | scheme@(guile-user)>
+   `----
+
+  Now, let's load a message (of course, replace with a message on your system):
+
+   ,----
+   | scheme@(guile-user)> (define msg (mu:msg:make-from-file "/home/djcb/Maildir/cur/12131e7b20a2:2,S"))                                                                               
+   `----
+
+  This defines a variable 'msg', which holds some message on your file
+  system. It's now easy to inspect this message:
+
+   ,----
+   | scheme@(guile-user)> (define msg (mu:msg:make-from-file "/home/djcb/Maildir/cur/12131e7b20a2:2,S"))                                                                               
+   `----
+
+   Now, we can inspect this message a bit:
+   ,----
+   | scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:msg:subject msg)
+   | $1 = "See me in bikini :-)"
+   | scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:msg:flags msg)
+   | $2 = (attach unread)
+   `----
+   
+   and so on. Note, it's probably easiest to explore the various mu: methods
+   using autocompletion; to enable that make sure you have 
+
+     (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
+     (activate-readline)
+
+   in your ~/.guile configuration.  
+   
+** Can I do some statistics on my messages?
+
+   Yes you can. It's pretty easy in guile. See the mu:stats functions.
+      
+
+
+
+[1] http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/
+[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: org; org-startup-folded: nil
+# End:
+
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