On Mon, Sep 13 2021, Charles-André Roy wrote: > Hello David, > > I have removed and purged the notmuch-emacs package. > > elpa-notmuch/stable,now 0.31.4-2 was already installed. > > On the notmuchmail.org Web site, I looked at the pages "Notmuch Emacs > Interface" and "Tips and Tricks". The only configuration file mentioned > on these pages is ~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el > > And I agree with you that the backtrace reports a Lisp reading error. I > created an empty ~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el, tried to start Notmuch > and it WORKED. I could see the beautiful notmuch-hello screen again. > > I wanted to make sure it was a steady fix. I closed all my opened Emacs > and started them again. On the first try I got the same *Backtrace*. > On the second try it worked. So the fix does not seem too stable. > > In one session, does Notmuch en Emacs first try to look at the file in > ~/. On another try, does it skip that step and go directly to the > programme ? That would also explain why some time ago a small > change in the file made a difference. The change in the file would not have made the difference but > the second try would. I wonder ? > > I am wondering also how come I did not have a the > ~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el Notmuch is trying to read. > > In trying to solve the problem I deleted the ~/.notmuch-config file. > Notmuch produced the message that it was not setup. I did the command > "notmuch setup" in a terminal. It created again the config file that > starts with the character # and placed it in ~/. > > C-h a did not show any setup command inside Emacs, how is the > notmuch-config.el file created and what goes in it ? Is it what I put > about Notmuch in my .emacs file ? The notmuch-config.el file is created by user; if it exists, notmuch emacs mua loads it. The following defines it (no notmuch.el) (defcustom notmuch-init-file (locate-user-emacs-file "notmuch-config") ...) In this case (locate-user-emacs-file new-file) tries to look notmuch-config files in user-emacs-directory (being ~/.emacs.d by default). As an example: when I tried: (locate-user-emacs-file ".zshrc") emacs printed "~/.emacs.d/.zshrc". ... anyway, whatever the user-emacs-directory is defined the combination of it and "notmuch-config" cannot resolve to ~/.notmuch-config... (I tried: (setq user-emacs-directory ".") (locate-user-emacs-file "zshrc") output was "~/zshrc" -- no . there) At the end of notmuch.el notmuch-config.el is attempted to be read with (when init-file-user ; don't load init file if the -q option was used. (load notmuch-init-file t t nil t)) load defined as: (load FILE &optional NOERROR NOMESSAGE NOSUFFIX MUST-SUFFIX) which, if I understand(*) correctly, wants the .el or .elc suffix (*) and understood correctly, 2014-03-29 when I added this feature The purpose of notmuch-config.el is to put notmuch emacs configuration so that only those instances of emacs that load notmuch will configure. Also, notmuch-config.el is loaded *after* notmuch is loaded (so one can e.g. overwrite functions (which I have done...)). Tomi > > Thank you ! > > > Charles _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org