Sort modifies its input as a side effect. Pass it a copy in notmuch-sort-saved-searches to not modify the notmuch-saved-searches alist. --- Earlier version by Daniel Schoepe and discussion in thread starting at id:"1330633478-1974-1-git-send-email-daniel@schoepe.org". --- emacs/notmuch-hello.el | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el index e9caade..8e37761 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ (defun notmuch-sort-saved-searches (alist) "Generate an alphabetically sorted saved searches alist." - (sort alist (lambda (a b) (string< (car a) (car b))))) + (sort (copy-sequence alist) (lambda (a b) (string< (car a) (car b))))) (defcustom notmuch-saved-search-sort-function nil "Function used to sort the saved searches for the notmuch-hello view. -- 1.7.5.4