Emacs & Docspell

Here are some utilities for using Docspell from Emacs! It is a interface around dsc, please install it as a prerequisite.

Installation

Nix

ds4e uses nix to build. It will inject the current version (from version.txt) into a source file.Run

nix-build

in the source root or import the file nix/ds4e.nix into your setup.

Manual

Clone this repo and add the lisp/ directory to emacs' load-path.

Configuration

Use customize-group ds4e to edit in Emacs, or set variables directly. Here are the important ones:

Variable	Default	Description
ds4e-dsc-executable	looked up in $PATH	The full path to the dsc executable
ds4e-dsc-config	-	Path to a dsc config file
ds4e-dsc-server-url	-	Docspell base url
ds4e-dsc-verbose	0	Verbosity, 0, 1 or 2

No config is required as all settings have sane defaults. Each package has its own set of configuration options to tweak.

Contents

Search view

The ds4e-search.el package provides a search feature rendering a list of items. It is inspired by mu4e. Start it with ds4e-search.

(use-package ds4e-search
  :load-path "/path/to/ds4e/lisp/"
  :command ds4e-search)

Dired integration

(use-package ds4e-dired
  :load-path "/path/to/ds4e/lisp/"
  :bind (:map dired-mode-map
              ("C-d u" . ds4e-dired-upload)
              ("C-d o" . ds4e-dired-open-browser)))

• Upload all marked or the file under point
• Open file under point in docspell (default browser)

Mu4e integration

There are functions provided that hook into mu4e (an excellent e-mail client for Emacs).

(use-package ds4e-mu4e
  :load-path "/path/to/ds4e/lisp/"
  :after (mu4e)
  :config
  (ds4e-mu4e-register))

This adds additional commands to the message and header view, for uploading an attachment or the entire message.

Dashboard integration

The package ds4e-dashboard provides a section for dashboard.el. It can be applied when configuring dashboard.

(use-package dashboard
  :config

  ;; load ds4e-dashboard
  (use-package ds4e-dashboard
    :config
    ;; registers the section
    (ds4e-dashboard-register))
  ;; optionally add a shortcut
  (add-to-list 'dashboard-item-shortcuts '(docspell . "d"))

  ;; then configure dashboard as usual, using new section `docspell'
  (setq dashboard-items '((projects . 5)
                          (docspell . 5)
                          (recents  . 5)
                          (agenda . 5)
                          (bookmarks . 5)))
  (setq dashboard-startup-banner 'logo)
  ;; ...
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook))

Note that you need to login first (via (ds4e-login)), to allow querying the database.

Low-level: run dsc

The package ds4e-client has some convenience functions to call dsc. More low-level functions are provided in ds4e-dsc.