If the user pressed return on the end result status line it gave a blank message. Modify the function notmuch-pick-get-message-id to return nil rather than an empty message-id in this case to fix this. This also fixes a bug in the (lack of) quoting of the id string. --- v2 is at id:1352562350-8219-1-git-send-email-markwalters1009@gmail.com As suggested by bremner make the nil return from the if clause explicit (as that is the point of the change). contrib/notmuch-pick/notmuch-pick.el | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/notmuch-pick/notmuch-pick.el b/contrib/notmuch-pick/notmuch-pick.el index 15ac5e8..4db9632 100644 --- a/contrib/notmuch-pick/notmuch-pick.el +++ b/contrib/notmuch-pick/notmuch-pick.el @@ -241,7 +241,10 @@ Some useful entries are: (defun notmuch-pick-get-message-id () "Return the message id of the current message." - (concat "id:\"" (notmuch-pick-get-prop :id) "\"")) + (let ((id (notmuch-pick-get-prop :id))) + (if id + (notmuch-id-to-query id) + nil))) (defun notmuch-pick-get-match () "Return whether the current message is a match." -- 1.7.9.1