Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu> writes:

>
> Agreed!  That's what I meant to write (a yank bug somewhere along the line).
>
> I am happy to ask upstream on the emacs list, unless you think it would
> be more likely to be accepted if coming from notmuch developers.
>
> -Sanjoy

I'd suggest submitting a feature request with M-x report-bug, and we can follow on
the bug if clarification is needed.

David