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 One of the more popular notmuch message reading clients is
 **notmuch.el**, an [emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) major
 mode for interacting with notmuch.  It is included in the notmuch
-package.  This page goes over some usage tips for using notmuch with
-Emacs.
+package (notmuch-emacs in Debian).  This page goes over some usage
+tips for using notmuch with Emacs.
 
 [[!toc levels=2]]
 
 ## Setup
 
+Have a look at the [Howto](http://notmuchmail.org/howto/) for
+prerequisites.  Be sure you have done the general setup using the
+notmuch cli command!
+
 To use the Notmuch emacs mode, first add the following line to your
 `.emacs` rc file:
 
@@ -25,8 +29,11 @@ notmuch` from within a running emacs.
 ## Navigating & reading mails
 
 When first starting notmuch in emacs, you will be presented with the
-notmuch "hello" page.  From here you can do searches, see lists of
-recent searches, saved searches, message tags, help information, etc.
+notmuch "hello" page.  If it exits with an error after writing
+"Welcome to notmutch. You have" you need to do the basic notmuch setup
+first (see above).  
+From here you can do searches, see lists of recent
+searches, saved searches, message tags, help information, etc.
 
 Executing a search will open a new buffer in `notmuch-search-mode`
 displaying the search results.  Each line in the search results
@@ -584,7 +591,7 @@ buffer.
 
 Mailman mailing list software rewrites and rewraps long message subjects in
 a way that causes TABs to appear in the middle of the subject and header
-lines. Add this to your .emacs to replace tabs with spaces in subject
+lines. Add this to your `.emacs` to replace tabs with spaces in subject
 lines:
 
 	(defun notmuch-show-subject-tabs-to-spaces ()
@@ -602,7 +609,7 @@ notmuch version 0.15):
 	(defun notmuch-show-header-tabs-to-spaces ()
 	  "Replace tabs with spaces in header line."
 	  (setq header-line-format
-	  (notmuch-show-strip-re
-	   (replace-regexp-in-string "\t" " " (notmuch-show-get-subject)))))
+	        (notmuch-show-strip-re
+	         (replace-regexp-in-string "\t" " " (notmuch-show-get-subject)))))
 
 	(add-hook 'notmuch-show-hook 'notmuch-show-header-tabs-to-spaces)