make
sudo make install
-You can even skip the configure step if all of the dependencies of
-Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
-notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
-dependencies.
+In fact, if you don't plan to pass any arguments to the configure
+script, then you can skip that step and just start with "make", (which
+will call configure for you). See this command:
+
+ ./configure --help
+
+for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
+configure stage.
notmuch.el installation
-----------------------
sudo make install-emacs
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to activate it.
+Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
+available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
+or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
Dependencies
------------
Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
-On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
-install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
-line:
+On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
+dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
+
+ For Debian and similar:
sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
-On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
-the package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of
-"dev").
+ For Fedora and similar:
+
+ sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
+the package names may be different.