On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:37:46 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: > > If I apply this patch as is, then when compiling the notmuch-show.el I > get the following warnings: > > In notmuch-show: > notmuch-show.el:969:34:Warning: reference to free variable `notmuch-command' > > In end of data: > notmuch-show.el:983:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be > defined: point-invisible-p, mail-header-extract-no-properties, > notmuch-select-tag-with-completion, union, intersection, set-difference, > notmuch-search-show-thread, mm-display-parts, mm-dissect-buffer, > notmuch-save-attachments, notmuch-count-attachments, notmuch-reply, > mm-handle-type, mm-display-part, notmuch-fontify-headers > This is my understanding from staring at the code for a few other packages; any experts feel free to contradict. The warnings about unknown functions can be eliminated by use the declare-function macro; if you have emacs lisp reference manual (it required the package emacs23-common-non-dfsg on Debian) then you can run: ESC ESC : (info "(elisp)Declaring Functions") <RETURN> For variables, the obvious approach is to make a file 'notmuch-vars.el' and put the variables we need in several files there.