- ;; Trim off the trailing newline
- (substring (notmuch-command-to-string "config" "get" item) 0 -1))
+ (let* ((val (notmuch-command-to-string "config" "get" item))
+ (len (length val)))
+ ;; Trim off the trailing newline (if the value is empty or not
+ ;; configured, there will be no newline)
+ (if (and (> len 0) (= (aref val (- len 1)) ?\n))
+ (substring val 0 -1)
+ val)))