dotfiles/aerc/aerc_back/AGENTS.md

Agent Guidelines: Aerc Configuration Repository

This repository contains the configuration and customization for aerc, a terminal-based email client. It is optimized for a workflow involving notmuch for indexing, mbsync for synchronization, abook for address management, khal for calendar, and taskwarrior for tasks.

1. Build, Lint, and Test Commands

Sync and Maintenance

• Global Sync: Run mailsync (bound to u in aerc) to perform:
  1. mbsync -a (Mail sync)
  2. vdirsyncer sync (Calendar sync)
  3. caldawarrior sync (Task sync)
  4. notmuch new for all account databases (Indexing)
  5. notmuch-abook-sync (Address book population)

Linting

• Permissions: accounts.conf must be 0600.
• Dependencies: w3m, bat, yazi, notmuch, abook, pass, isync, khal, vdirsyncer, task, taskwarrior-tui, caldawarrior.

Testing

• Filters: cat email.html | w3m -T text/html -dump
• Calendar: khal list
• Tasks: task list

2. Code Style Guidelines

Aerc Configuration

• Notmuch URI: Use absolute triple-slash format: source = notmuch:///home/liph/Mail/account_name.
• Credentials: Use pass via outgoing-cred-cmd = pass show mail/account_email.
• Sidebar: Use separate notmuch databases per account directory for isolation.

Keybindings

• Leader: , (comma).
• Tab switching: Alt+n (next) and Alt+p (prev).
• Contacts: ,ab opens abook.
• Calendar: ,ca opens unified khal.
• Tasks: ,ta opens taskwarrior-tui.

Terminal Tabs (Khal/Taskwarrior)

• Escape: Press Ctrl+x to release terminal focus and use aerc commands.
• Tab Passthrough: Tab and Backtab are passed to terminal apps for internal navigation.

Neovim integration (after/ftplugin/mail.lua)

• Completion: Triggered by Tab on header lines using abook --mutt-query.
• Fzf: Triggered by Ctrl+f for interactive contact selection.