On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:17:03 -0700 (PDT), notmuch-commits-sender@notmuchmail.org (Carl Worth) wrote:
>     emacs: Make notmuch-hello jumpt to search bar by default.
>     
>     This isn't ideal for me personally, since I usually want to inovke a
>     saved search rather than entering a new search textually. But it's at
>     least better than just putting point in the upper-left corner where it
>     doesn't do anything.

Originally this was the behaviour (jump to the search box), but I found
that it really annoyed me. To use any of the keybindings it's necessary
to move the cursor out of the search entry area.

dme.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org