wl-summary-goto-folder (keybinding g in Summary mode), permits to jump to a folder whose name is entered interactively.
What I'd like is to pass it the folder name by argument, in order to call it at emacs startup time, with something like
emacsclient -c --eval "(wl-folder-goto-folder 'folder_name)"
Is there a way I can do that ?
Thanks to lawlist comment, the answer is to call the internal function wl-summary-goto-folder-subr with the right parameters.
What ends up working for me is :
emacsclient -c --eval "(wl-summary-goto-folder-subr '\".INBOX\" t nil nil t)"
The last t is the INTERACTIVE parameter and without it, it "seems to do nothing" (someone more knowledgeable at elisp please explain). The first t is the SCAN-TYPE parameter, and prevents a prompt (Range (update):) at start time. No, I have no idea what I'm doing.
awful.client.run_or_raise('emacsclient -c --eval "(wl-summary-goto-folder-subr \\\".Inbox\\\" t nil nil t)"', function(c) return awful.rules.match(c, {name = "Summary:%.Inbox"} ) end) in the awesome config.
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Feb 3, 2017 at 7:58
scan-type arguents: nil; 'all; 'no-sync; 'rescan; 'force-update; 'update. The usage of t for scan-type has the effect of 'no-sync. The code does not recognize t when determining whether to execute wl-summary-sync, wl-summary-rescan or wl-summary-sync-force-update. The interactive argument has a bearing on scoring and displaying the buffer with a possible recenter command (rather than just working on the summary buffer behind the scenes).
(wl-summary-goto-folder-subr "%inbox" nil nil nil t)or(wl-summary-goto-folder-subr "%INBOX.Sent" nil nil nil t), but I also have some functions that check to see whetherwlhas been initialized and I toggle the plug on at the beginning to download any new mail and then I turn the plug off when I'm done.