Hello David, It worked. Problem solved. I have tried twice to make sure and both times it did work. Tomi Ollila's message was very helpful, even if it was a bit too technical for me. It made me understand the difference between ~/.notmuch-config and ~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el. I also reread the Web pages more carefully. This morning I thought I must have specified somewhere that ~/.notmuch-config is the configuration file for Emacs. I looked in M-x customize and did not find anything there. I thought about my init.file but your message came in before I had the chance to look at it. I did what you suggested, emacs -q, and notmuch started immeidiately. I then went in my .emacs file and did a search for .notmuch-config. I found it as the notmuch-init-file. I changed that variable to ~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el and that has done the job. Thank you so much David and Tomi for your support and patience to deal with basic questions like the one I had. But as you well know, even a basic question can paralyze your system. Best regards, Charles Le mar, 14 sep 2021, à 09:16, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> a écrit : > Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 13 2021, Charles-André Roy wrote: >> >>> Hello David, >>> >>> I have removed and purged the notmuch-emacs package. >>> >>> elpa-notmuch/stable,now 0.31.4-2 was already installed. >>> >> >> The notmuch-config.el file is created by user; if it exists, notmuch emacs >> mua loads it. >> >> The following defines it (no notmuch.el) >> >> (defcustom notmuch-init-file (locate-user-emacs-file "notmuch-config") >> ...) > > A few more questions based on Tomi's experiments / observations. > > 1) Can you try starting "emacs -q", then evaluate "(require 'notmuch)" in > *scratch*. If notmuch starts after this we have confirmed it is > something specific to your emacs configuration. The usual approach is > then to bisect your init.el > > 2) Check in .emacs.d/elpa for any residual notmuch-* directories _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org