1 [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
2 # Tips and Tricks for using notmuch with Emacs
4 One of the more popular notmuch message reading clients is
5 **notmuch.el**, an [emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) major
6 mode for interacting with notmuch. It is included in the notmuch
7 package (notmuch-emacs in Debian). This page goes over some usage
8 tips for using notmuch with Emacs.
14 Have a look at the [Howto](http://notmuchmail.org/howto/) for
15 prerequisites. Be sure you have done the general setup using the
18 To use the Notmuch emacs mode, first add the following line to your
23 or you can load the package via autoload:
25 (autoload 'notmuch "notmuch" "notmuch mail" t)
27 Then, either run "emacs -f notmuch", or execute the command `M-x
28 notmuch` from within a running emacs.
30 ## Navigating & reading mails
32 When first starting notmuch in emacs, you will be presented with the
33 notmuch "hello" page. If it exits with an error after writing
34 "Welcome to notmutch. You have" you need to do the basic notmuch setup
36 From here you can do searches, see lists of recent
37 searches, saved searches, message tags, help information, etc.
39 Executing a search will open a new buffer in `notmuch-search-mode`
40 displaying the search results. Each line in the search results
41 represents a message thread. Hitting the '?' key will show help for
44 In general, the 'q' will kill the current notmuch buffer and return
45 you to the previous buffer (sort of like a 'pop').
47 In search mode, navigating to a thread and hitting return will then
48 open a new buffer in `notmuch-show-mode`, which will show the actual
49 message contents of the thread.
53 In any notmuch mode, you can start a new message by hitting the 'm'
54 key. To reply to a message or thread, just hit the 'r' key.
56 When composing new messages, you will be entered in emacs's
57 `message-mode`, which is a powerful mode for composing and sending
58 messages. When in message mode, you can type `C-c ?` for help.
60 If you would like to use address autocompletion when composing
61 messages, see [address completion](#address_completion).
63 When you are ready to send a message, type `C-c C-c`. By default
64 message mode will use your sendmail command to send mail, so make sure
65 that works. One annoying standard configuration of message mode is
66 that it will hide the sent mail in your emacs frame stack, but it will
67 not close it. If you type several mails in an emacs session they will
68 accumulate and make switching between buffers more annoying. You can
69 avoid that behavior by adding `(setq message-kill-buffer-on-exit t)`
70 in your `.emacs` file (or doing `M-x
71 customize-variable<RET>message-kill-buffer-on-exit<RET>`) which will
72 really close the mail window after sending it.
76 Using the `M-x mml-attach-file` command, you can attach any file to be
77 sent with your mail. By default this command is bound to the menu item
78 *Attachments--Attach File* with the key binding `C-c C-a`. The
79 variable `mml-dnd-attach-options` (`M-x
80 customize-variable<RET>mml-dnd-attach-options<RET>`) can be set to
81 allow the prompting for various attachment options (such as
82 inline/attachment) if you want to do that.
84 For those who prefer a more graphical interface, you can also simply
85 drag and drop files from a file manager into a mail composition window
86 to have them attached. In Ubuntu this works without any modifications
87 if files are dragged from the file manager.
89 And for those who prefer working from command line, the following
90 script opens new emacs window with empty message and attaches files
91 mentioned as script arguments. (Note: The script expects that you have
92 `(server-start)` in your `.emacs` file.)
97 fullpath=$(readlink --canonicalize "$1")
98 attach_cmds="$attach_cmds (mml-attach-file \"$fullpath\")"
101 emacsclient -a '' -c -e "(progn (compose-mail) $attach_cmds)"
103 ## Issues with Emacs 24
105 If notmuch-show-mode behaves badly for you in emacs 24.x try adding one of
107 (setq gnus-inhibit-images nil)
117 # Advanced tips and tweaks
119 ## Use separate emacs lisp file for notmuch configuration
121 Instead of adding notmuch configuration code to `.emacs`, there
122 is an option to collect those to a separate file (which is only
123 loaded when `notmuch` is invoked). To do this, write, for example
124 a file called `~/.emacs.d/my-notmuch.el`:
126 ;;; my-notmuch.el -- my notmuch mail configuration
129 ;;; add here stuff required to be configured *before*
130 ;;; notmuch is loaded;
132 ;; uncomment and modify in case some elisp files are not found in load-path
133 ;; (add-to-list 'load-path "~/vc/ext/notmuch/emacs")
138 ;;; add here stuff required to be configured *after*
139 ;;; notmuch is loaded;
141 ;; uncomment & modify if you want to use external smtp server to send mail
142 ;; (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.server.tld"
143 ;; message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it)
144 ;; uncomment to debug smtp sending problems
145 ;; (setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
147 Then, add to `.emacs`:
149 (autoload 'notmuch "~/.emacs.d/my-notmuch" "notmuch mail" t)
151 ## Initial cursor position in notmuch 0.15 hello window
153 In notmuch version 0.15 emacs client the handling of cursor position in
154 notmuch hello window has been simplified to a version which suits best
157 Initially the cursor is positioned at the beginning of buffer.
159 Some users liked the "ancient" version where cursor was moved to the
160 first `Saved searches` button.
162 Add the following code to your notmuch emacs configuration file in
163 case you want this behaviour:
165 (add-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-hook
167 (if (and (eq (point) (point-min))
168 (search-forward "Saved searches:" nil t))
172 (if (eq (widget-type (widget-at)) 'editable-field)
173 (beginning-of-line)))))
175 ## Add a key binding to add/remove/toggle a tag
177 The `notmuch-{search,show}-{add,remove}-tag` functions are very useful
178 for making quick tag key bindings. For instance, here's an example
179 of how to make a key binding to add the "spam" tag and remove the
180 "inbox" tag in notmuch-show-mode:
182 In notmuch versions up to 0.11.x
184 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "S"
186 "mark message as spam"
188 (notmuch-show-add-tag "spam")
189 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "inbox")))
191 Starting from notmuch 0.12 the functions `notmuch-show-add-tag` and
192 `notmuch-show-remove-tag` have changed to be more versatile and lost
193 noninteractive use. When upgrading to 0.12 the above needs to be
196 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "S"
198 "mark message as spam"
200 (notmuch-show-tag-message "+spam" "-inbox")))
202 You can do the same for threads in `notmuch-search-mode` by just
203 replacing "show" with "search" in the called functions.
205 Starting from notmuch 0.12 use `notmuch-search-tag-thread` instead:
207 (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "S"
209 "mark messages in thread as spam"
211 (notmuch-show-tag-thread "+spam" "-inbox")))
213 Starting from notmuch 0.13 use `notmuch-search-tag` -- it has a little
214 different usage syntax:
216 (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "S"
218 "mark messages in thread as spam"
220 (notmuch-search-tag '("+spam" "-inbox"))))
222 The definition above makes use of a lambda function, but you could
223 also define a separate function first:
225 (defun notmuch-show-tag-spam ()
226 "mark message as spam"
228 (notmuch-show-add-tag "spam")
229 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "inbox")))
230 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "S" 'notmuch-show-tag-spam)
232 (See above for analogy how to apply this for notmuch 0.12 and later)
234 Here's a more complicated example of how to add a toggle "deleted"
237 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
239 "toggle deleted tag for message"
241 (if (member "deleted" (notmuch-show-get-tags))
242 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "deleted")
243 (notmuch-show-add-tag "deleted"))))
245 And version for notmuch 0.12
247 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
249 "toggle deleted tag for message"
251 (notmuch-show-tag-message
252 (if (member "deleted" (notmuch-show-get-tags))
253 "-deleted" "+deleted"))))
255 ## Adding many tagging keybindings
257 If you want to have have many tagging keybindings, you can save the typing
258 the few lines of boilerplate for every binding (for versions before 0.12,
259 you will need to change notmuch-show-apply-tag-macro).
261 (eval-after-load 'notmuch-show
262 '(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "`" 'notmuch-show-apply-tag-macro))
264 (setq notmuch-show-tag-macro-alist
266 '("m" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::moreinfo" "-notmuch::needs-review")
267 '("n" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::pushed")
268 '("o" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::obsolete"
269 "-notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::moreinfo")
270 '("p" "-notmuch::pushed" "-notmuch::needs-review"
271 "-notmuch::moreinfo" "+pending")
272 '("P" "-pending" "-notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::moreinfo" "+notmuch::pushed")
273 '("r" "-notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::review")
274 '("s" "+notmuch::patch" "-notmuch::obsolete" "-notmuch::needs-review" "-notmuch::moreinfo" "+notmuch::stale")
275 '("t" "+notmuch::patch" "-notmuch::needs-review" "+notmuch::trivial")
276 '("w" "+notmuch::patch" "+notmuch::wip" "-notmuch::needs-review")))
278 (defun notmuch-show-apply-tag-macro (key)
280 (let ((macro (assoc key notmuch-show-tag-macro-alist)))
281 (apply 'notmuch-show-tag-message (cdr macro))))
283 ## Restore reply-to-all key binding to 'r'
285 Starting from notmuch 0.12 the 'r' key is bound to reply-to-sender instead of
286 reply-to-all. Here's how to swap the reply to sender/all bindings in show mode:
288 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "r" 'notmuch-show-reply)
289 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "R" 'notmuch-show-reply-sender)
293 (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "r" 'notmuch-search-reply-to-thread)
294 (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "R" 'notmuch-search-reply-to-thread-sender)
297 ## How to do FCC/BCC...
299 The Emacs interface to notmuch will automatically add an `Fcc`
300 header to your outgoing mail so that any messages you send will also
301 be saved in your mail store. You can control where this copy of the
302 message is saved by setting the variable `notmuch-fcc-dirs` which defines the
303 subdirectory relative to the `database.path` setting from your
304 notmuch configuration in which to save the mail. Enter a directory
305 (without the maildir `/cur` ending which will be appended
306 automatically). Additional information can be found as usual using:
308 M-x describe-variable notmuch-fcc-dirs
310 An additional variable that can affect FCC settings in some cases is
311 `message-directory`. Emacs message-mode uses this variable for
314 To customize both variables at the same time, use the fancy command:
316 M-x customize-apropos<RET>\(notmuch-fcc-dirs\)\|\(message-directory\)
318 This mechanism also allows you to select different folders to be
319 used for the outgoing mail depending on your selected `From`
320 address. Please see the documentation for the variable
321 `notmuch-fcc-dirs` in the customization window for how to arrange
324 ## How to customize `notmuch-saved-searches`
326 When starting notmuch, a list of saved searches and message counts is
327 displayed, replacing the older `notmuch-folders` command. The set of
328 saved searches displayed can be modified directly from the notmuch
329 interface (using the `[save]` button next to a previous search) or by
330 customising the variable `notmuch-saved-searches`.
332 An example setting might be:
334 (setq notmuch-saved-searches '(("inbox" . "tag:inbox")
335 ("unread" . "tag:inbox AND tag:unread")
336 ("notmuch" . "tag:inbox AND to:notmuchmail.org")))
338 Of course, you can have any number of saved searches, each configured
339 with any supported search terms (see "notmuch help search-terms").
341 Some users find it useful to add `and not tag:delete` to those
342 searches, as they use the `delete` tag to mark messages as
343 deleted. This causes messages that are marked as deleted to be removed
344 from the commonly used views of messages. Use whatever seems most
347 ## Viewing HTML messages with an external viewer
349 The emacs client can display an HTML message inline using either the
350 `html2text` library or some text browser, like w3m or lynx. This is
351 controlled by the `mm-text-html-renderer` variable.
353 The first option is theorically better, because it can generate
354 strings formatted for emacs and do whatever you want, e.g., substitute
355 text inside <b> tags for bold text in the buffer. The library, however
356 is still in a very early development phase and cannot yet process
357 properly many elements, like tables and <style> directives, and even
358 the generated text is often poorly formatted.
360 Among the available browsers, w3m seems to do a better job converting
361 the html, and if you have the w3m emacs package, you can use it,
362 instead of the w3m-standalone, and thus preserve the text formatting.
364 But if the rendering fails for one reason or another, or if you really
365 need to see the graphical presentation of the HTML message, it can be
366 useful to display the message in an external viewer, such as a web
367 browser. Here's a little script that Keith Packard wrote, which he
373 cat "$@" > "$dir"/msg
374 if munpack -C "$dir" -t < "$dir"/msg 2>&1 | grep 'Did not find'; then
375 sed -n '/[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]/,$p' "$dir"/msg > $dir/part1.html
378 for i in "$dir"/part*; do
379 if grep -q -i -e '<html>' -e 'text/html' "$i"; then
386 Save that script somewhere in your `${PATH}`, make it executable,
387 and change the invocation of `iceweasel` to any other HTML viewer if
388 necessary. Then within the emacs client, press '|' to pipe the
389 current message, then type "view-html".
391 Keith mentions the following caveat, "Note that if iceweasel isn't
392 already running, it seems to shut down when the script exits. I
395 ## msmtp, message mode and multiple accounts
397 As an alternative to running a mail server such as sendmail or postfix
398 just to send email, it is possible to use
399 [msmtp](http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/). This small application will
400 look like `/usr/bin/sendmail` to a MUA such as emacs message mode, but
401 will just forward the email to an external SMTP server. It's fairly
402 easy to set up and it supports several accounts for using different
403 SMTP servers. The msmtp pages have several examples.
405 A typical scenario is that you want to use the company SMTP server
406 for email coming from your company email address, and your personal
407 server for personal email. If msmtp is passed the envelope address
408 on the command line (the -f/--from option) it will automatically
409 pick the matching account. The only trick here seems to be getting
410 emacs to actually pass the envelope from. There are a number of
411 overlapping configuration variables that control this, and it's a
412 little confusion, but setting these three works for me:
414 - `mail-specify-envelope-from`: `t`
416 - `message-sendmail-envelope-from`: `header`
418 - `mail-envelope-from`: `header`
420 With that in place, you need a `.msmtprc` with the accounts configured
421 for the domains you want to send out using specific SMTP servers and
422 the rest will go to the default account.
424 If you have a hard time getting the above to work for you, as I did,
425 it's also possible to add a message-send-mail-hook in your .emacs to
426 send the from header explicitly as an argument to msmtp as described
427 [here](http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusMSMTP#toc2) on the
431 ## <span id="address_completion">Address completion when composing</span>
433 There are currently three solutions to this:
437 [bbdb](http://bbdb.sourceforge.net) is a contact database for emacs
438 that works quite nicely together with message mode, including
439 address autocompletion.
441 ### notmuch database as an address book
443 You can also use the notmuch database as a mail address book itself.
444 To do this you need a command line tool that outputs likely address
445 candidates based on a search string. There are currently four
448 * The python tool `notmuch_address.py` (`git clone
449 http://commonmeasure.org/~jkr/git/notmuch_addresses.git`) (slower, but
450 no compilation required so good for testing the setup)
453 [addrlookup](http://github.com/spaetz/vala-notmuch) (faster, but
454 needs compiling). The addrlookup binary needs to be compiled.
456 `http://github.com/spaetz/vala-notmuch/raw/static-sources/src/addrlookup.c`
459 cc -o addrlookup addrlookup.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gobject-2.0` -lnotmuch
461 * Shell/fgrep/perl combination [nottoomuch-addresses.sh](https://github.com/domo141/nottoomuch/blob/master/nottoomuch-addresses.rst).
462 This tools maintains it's own address "database" gathered from email
463 files notmuch knows and search from that "database" is done by `fgrep(1)`.
465 * python/sqlite combination [notmuch-abook](https://github.com/guyzmo/notmuch-abook/)
466 This tools also maintains an address database in sqlite after harvesting
467 from notmuch. It also includes a vim plugin.
469 You can perform tab-completion using any of these programs.
470 Just add the following to your .emacs:
472 (require 'notmuch-address)
473 (setq notmuch-address-command "/path/to/address_fetching_program")
474 (notmuch-address-message-insinuate)
478 [GooBook](http://code.google.com/p/goobook/) is a command-line tool for
479 accessing Google Contacts. Install and set it up according to its documentation.
481 To use GooBook with notmuch, use this wrapper script and set it up like the
485 goobook query "$*" | sed 's/\(.*\)\t\(.*\)\t.*/\2 \<\1\>/' | sed '/^$/d'
487 You can add the sender of a message to Google Contacts by piping the message
488 (`notmuch-show-pipe-message`) to `goobook add`.
492 git clone https://github.com/mmehnert/akonadimailsearch
494 Install the development packages for kdepim on your system.
495 Enter the cloned repository and create a build directory:
501 You will find the akonadimailsearch binary in the build/src directory.
502 Create a ~/bin/akonadimailsearch.sh file with the following content and make it executable:
503 (Adjust the path for the akonadimailsearch binary.)
506 akonadimailsearch "$@" 2>/dev/null
508 As described above, you can now add the following settings to your ~/.emacs file:
510 (require 'notmuch-address)
511 (setq notmuch-address-command "~/bin/akonadimailsearch.sh")
512 (notmuch-address-message-insinuate)
516 ## How to sign/encrypt messages with gpg
518 Messages can by signed using gpg by invoking
519 `M-x mml-secure-sign-pgpmime` (or `M-x mml-secure-encrypt-pgpmime`).
520 These functions are available via the standard `message-mode` keybindings
521 `C-c C-m s p` and `C-c C-m c p`. To sign outgoing mail by default, use the
522 `message-setup-hook` in your `.emacs` file:
524 ;; Sign messages by default.
525 (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'mml-secure-sign-pgpmime)
527 This inserts the required `<#part sign=pgpmime>` into the beginning
528 of the mail text body and will be converted into a pgp signature
529 when sending (so one can just manually delete that line if signing
532 Alternatively, you may prefer to use `mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime` instead
533 of `mml-secure-sign-pgpmime` to sign the whole message instead of just one
536 ### Troubleshooting message-mode gpg support
538 - If you have trouble with expired subkeys, you may have encountered
539 emacs bug #7931. This is fixed in git commit 301ea744c on
540 2011-02-02. Note that if you have the Debian package easypg
541 installed, it will shadow the fixed version of easypg included with
544 ## Multiple identities using gnus-alias
546 [gnus-alias](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusAlias) allows you to
547 define multiple identities when using `message-mode`. You can specify
548 the from address, organization, extra headers (including *Bcc*), extra
549 body text, and signature for each identity. Identities are chosen
550 based on a set of rules. When you are in message mode, you can switch
551 identities using gnus-alias.
555 - put `gnus-alias.el` on your load Emacs-Lisp load path (add new directory
556 to load path by writing `(add-to-list 'load-path "/some/load/path")` into
559 - Add the following to your `.emacs`
561 (autoload 'gnus-alias-determine-identity "gnus-alias" "" t)
562 (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'gnus-alias-determine-identity)
564 Looking into `gnus-alias.el` gives a bit more information...
566 ### Example Configuration
568 Here is an example configuration.
570 ;; Define two identities, "home" and "work"
571 (setq gnus-alias-identity-alist
573 nil ;; Does not refer to any other identity
574 "John Doe <jdoe@example.net>" ;; Sender address
575 nil ;; No organization header
576 nil ;; No extra headers
577 nil ;; No extra body text
581 "John Doe <john.doe@example.com>"
583 (("Bcc" . "john.doe@example.com"))
585 "~/.signature.work")))
586 ;; Use "home" identity by default
587 (setq gnus-alias-default-identity "home")
588 ;; Define rules to match work identity
589 (setq gnus-alias-identity-rules)
590 '(("work" ("any" "john.doe@\\(example\\.com\\|help\\.example.com\\)" both) "work"))
591 ;; Determine identity when message-mode loads
592 (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'gnus-alias-determine-identity)
594 When `gnus-alias` has been loaded (using autoload, require, *M-x load-library*
595 or *M-x load-file* (load-file takes file path -- therefore it can be used
596 without any `.emacs` changes)) the following commands can be used to get(/set)
597 more information (some of these have "extensive documentation"):
599 M-x describe-variable RET gnus-alias-identity-alist
600 M-x describe-variable RET gnus-alias-identity-rules
601 M-x describe-variable RET gnus-alias-default-identity
603 M-x customize-group RET gnus-alias RET
605 M-x gnus-alias-customize RET
607 The last two do the same thing.
609 See also the **Usage:** section in `gnus-alias.el`.
611 ## Resending (or bouncing) messages
613 Add the following to your `.emacs` to be able to resend the current message in
616 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "b"
617 (lambda (&optional address)
618 "Bounce the current message."
619 (interactive "sBounce To: ")
620 (notmuch-show-view-raw-message)
621 (message-resend address)))
623 ## `notmuch-hello` refresh status message
625 Add the following to your `.emacs` to get a status message about the change in
626 the number of messages in the mail store when refreshing the `notmuch-hello`
629 (defvar notmuch-hello-refresh-count 0)
631 (defun notmuch-hello-refresh-status-message ()
635 (car (process-lines notmuch-command "count"))))
636 (diff-count (- new-count notmuch-hello-refresh-count)))
638 ((= notmuch-hello-refresh-count 0)
639 (message "You have %s messages."
640 (notmuch-hello-nice-number new-count)))
642 (message "You have %s more messages since last refresh."
643 (notmuch-hello-nice-number diff-count)))
645 (message "You have %s fewer messages since last refresh."
646 (notmuch-hello-nice-number (- diff-count)))))
647 (setq notmuch-hello-refresh-count new-count))))
649 (add-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-status-message)
651 ## Replacing tabs with spaces in subject and header
653 Mailman mailing list software rewrites and rewraps long message subjects in
654 a way that causes TABs to appear in the middle of the subject and header
655 lines. Add this to your `.emacs` to replace tabs with spaces in subject
658 (defun notmuch-show-subject-tabs-to-spaces ()
659 "Replace tabs with spaces in subject line."
660 (goto-char (point-min))
661 (when (re-search-forward "^Subject:" nil t)
662 (while (re-search-forward "\t" (line-end-position) t)
663 (replace-match " " nil nil))))
665 (add-hook 'notmuch-show-markup-headers-hook 'notmuch-show-subject-tabs-to-spaces)
667 And in header lines (this will only work with the yet to be released
668 notmuch version 0.15):
670 (defun notmuch-show-header-tabs-to-spaces ()
671 "Replace tabs with spaces in header line."
672 (setq header-line-format
673 (notmuch-show-strip-re
674 (replace-regexp-in-string "\t" " " (notmuch-show-get-subject)))))
676 (add-hook 'notmuch-show-hook 'notmuch-show-header-tabs-to-spaces)
678 ## Hiding unread messages in notmuch-show
680 I like to have an inbox saved search, but only show unread messages when they
681 view a thread. This takes two steps:
684 [this patch from Mark Walters](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2012/010817.html)
685 to add the `notmuch-show-filter-thread` function.
686 1. Add the following hook to your emacs configuration:
688 (defun expand-only-unread-hook () (interactive)
690 (open (notmuch-show-get-message-ids-for-open-messages)))
691 (notmuch-show-mapc (lambda ()
692 (when (member "unread" (notmuch-show-get-tags))
695 (let ((notmuch-show-hook (remove 'expand-only-unread-hook notmuch-show-hook)))
696 (notmuch-show-filter-thread "tag:unread")))))
698 (add-hook 'notmuch-show-hook 'expand-only-unread-hook)
700 ## Changing the color of a saved search based on some other search
702 I like to have a saved search for my inbox, but have it change color when there
703 are thread with unread messages in the inbox. I accomplish this with the
704 following code in my emacs config:
706 (defun color-inbox-if-unread () (interactive)
708 (goto-char (point-min))
709 (let ((cnt (car (process-lines "notmuch" "count" "tag:inbox and tag:unread"))))
710 (when (> (string-to-number cnt) 0)
712 (when (search-forward "inbox" (point-max) t)
713 (let* ((overlays (overlays-in (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
714 (overlay (car overlays)))
716 (overlay-put overlay 'face '((:inherit bold) (:foreground "green")))))))))))
717 (add-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-hook 'color-inbox-if-unread)
719 ## Linking to notmuch messages and threads from the Circe IRC client
721 [Circe](https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/circe/wiki) is an IRC client for emacs.
722 To have clickable buttons for notmuch messages and threads, add the following to
723 `lui-buttons-list` (using, e.g. M-x customize-variable)
725 ("\\(?:id\\|mid\\|thread\\):[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z.@-]*" 0 notmuch-show 0)
727 If you have notmuch-pick installed, it works fine for this as well.
729 ## Linking to notmuch messages from org-mode
731 Support for linking to notmuch messages is distributed with org-mode,
732 but as a contrib file, so you might have to work a bit to load it.
734 In Debian and derivatives,
736 (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/org-mode/lisp")
740 (require 'org-notmuch)
742 In general it is nice to have a key for org-links (not just for notmuch). For example
744 (define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)