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?