From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: BUG: notmuch hang trying to reply to email
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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:30:49 +0900
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Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been using Emacs+notmuch and things have been working well.
>
> However, for one particular email, which can be downloaded here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260407074534.59179-1-litaliano00.contact@gmail.com/
>
> I am unable to reply to this email (all other emails work fine). After
> notmuch-mua-reply, my Emacs just hangs. gdb's back trace is below.
>
> Strangely, I can only reproduce this issue when this is in my .emacs
> config file:
>
> (add-hook 'after-change-major-mode-hook (lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")))
>
> Removing that line makes the problem disappear.
>
> Any idea?

It seems to be an upstream problem in emacs, not specific to notmuch. I
have reported it to

     https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=80808

I guess we'll see what the emacs developers think.
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