On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:39:32 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:17:55 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been experimenting with notmuch-always-prompt-for-sender on my > > debian stable setup (emacs 23.2.1) and it doesn't like > > ido-completing-read. It goes to the minibuffer and then it seems to be > > impossible to exit the minibuffer. > > > > I can find an emacs bug report #3274 and some discussion > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/27856 which indicates that it > > is a problem with ido initialisation. Unfortunately I can't get from there to a > > solution (except upgrade emacs). > > I'm not sure that notmuch-mua.el should be using `ido-completing-read', > and certainly not without `require'ing it. > > Is there a particular thing required that `completing-read' doesn't do? Thanks for the suggestion: I can confirm that with ido-completing-read replaced by completing-read it works nicely. The "ido" version shows the possibilities for you which is nice, but this works fine. Many thanks Mark