On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:04:45 +0100, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote: > Ah, when you set `notmuch-search-authors-width' the expression which > creates `notmuch-search-result-format' is not re-evaluated. > > Do things get better if you restart emacs (sorry for suggesting that)? I can't see how that would help, because notmuch-search-result-format is always going to be evaluated with the default value of notmuch-search-authors-width, which is defined immediately previous to it. jamie.