Jose A Ortega Ruiz writes: > In very recent emacs (i'm using its master branch, actually), if one M-x > describe-function RET format-spec one sees in the help buffer: > > Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 27.1. > > that's where my misconception came from. I see. If I recall correctly, that help string is generated by searching NEWS* files for the name of interest. While that often works okay, in this case format-spec is first mentioned in the NEWS for 27.1: $ git describe emacs-28.0.91-28-ge4886018496 $ git grep -c format-spec -- 'etc/NEWS*' etc/NEWS:5 etc/NEWS.27:1 > I guess that's potentially good news: i don't see an emacs version > specified in notmuch's package: is it supposed to be compatible with > emacs < 25.3? If not, we can just forget about the regexp branch. Here's the last statement about the minimum Emacs version I see in Notmuch's NEWS (for v0.31): The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1. The example in my last message used 25.3 because that's the closest version to 25.1 for which I had a local working tree checked out and built. But, as I mentioned, format-spec has been present since Emacs 21.1. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org