The tags were coloured using text properties. Unfortunately that text (the header line) also has an overlay, which overrides the text properties. There's not point in applying text properties that will never be seen. --- emacs/notmuch-show.el | 8 ++------ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el index 8c9d846..24f0b40 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el @@ -221,10 +221,7 @@ indentation." (goto-char (notmuch-show-message-top)) (if (re-search-forward "(\\([^()]*\\))$" (line-end-position) t) (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) - (replace-match (concat "(" - (propertize (mapconcat 'identity tags " ") - 'face 'notmuch-tag-face) - ")")))))) + (replace-match (concat "(" (mapconcat 'identity tags " ") ")")))))) (defun notmuch-show-clean-address (address) "Try to clean a single email ADDRESS for display. Return @@ -278,8 +275,7 @@ message at DEPTH in the current thread." " (" date ") (" - (propertize (mapconcat 'identity tags " ") - 'face 'notmuch-tag-face) + (mapconcat 'identity tags " ") ")\n") (overlay-put (make-overlay start (point)) 'face 'notmuch-message-summary-face))) -- 1.7.7.3