Key binding and link displays about mu4e-dashboard HOT 7 OPEN

Stupid question but are you in "mu4e-dashboard-mode"?

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Yep, I sure was - I tried going back and forth to see if I could trigger some kind of error but the Message log didn't have anything interesting.

I'll spin it up with Doom or one of the other pre-configs and see if that changes anything for me.

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Can you try a manual mu4e-dahsboard-update to see what happens?

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I think I found the reason for the keybinding problem!

It seems that when mu4e-dashboard-mode is called, mu4e-dashboard-parse-keymap does not process the current buffer. It seems to process ~/.emacs.d/mu4e-dashboard.el instead.

If the file does not exist, nothing is actually bound.

This is the culprit line:

   (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect mu4e-dashboard-file)

I think carwin and I were under the impression that the bindings are done in the current file.

Perhaps this line is unnecessary? I have removed it (and its corresponding parenthesis) and the bindings are now happening.

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That's weird. The mu4e-dashboard-file is supposed to point to the dashboard org file. What is the value in your case?

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That's weird. The mu4e-dashboard-file is supposed to point to the dashboard org file. What is the value in your case?

mu4e-dashboard-file is a variable defined in ‘mu4e-dashboard.el’.
Its value is "~/.emacs.d/mu4e-dashboard.org"

here is the definition:

(defcustom mu4e-dashboard-file "~/.emacs.d/mu4e-dashboard.org"
"Path to the dashboard org file."
:type 'string)

Our problem is that we didn't know this was the dashboard.

I think this is because mu4e-dashboard-mode does not load mu4e-dashboard-file. It acts on the current file, so we simply assumed that the current file is the dashboard.

My suggestion is to choose one of following two when calling mu4e-dashboard-mode:

1. Process the current file: comment the line (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect mu4e-dashboard-file)

2. Switch to mu4e-dashboard-file and make it the dashboard file.

I vote for #1.

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I also vote for #1. Do you want to make a PR?

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