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.
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## 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:
## 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
done
emacsclient -a '' -c -e "(progn (compose-mail) $attach_cmds)"
+## Issues with Emacs 24
+
+If notmuch-show-mode behaves badly for you in emacs 24.x try adding one of
+
+ (setq gnus-inhibit-images nil)
+
+or
+
+ (require 'gnus-art)
+
+to your .emacs file.
-----
;; uncomment & modify if you want to use external smtp server to send mail
;; (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.server.tld"
;; message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it)
- ;; uncomment to debug smtp sending problems
- ;; (setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
+ ;; uncomment to debug smtp sending problems
+ ;; (setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
Then, add to `.emacs`:
The last two do the same thing.
See also the **Usage:** section in `gnus-alias.el`.
+
+## Resending (or bouncing) messages
+
+Add the following to your `.emacs` to be able to resend the current message in
+show mode.
+
+ (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "b"
+ (lambda (&optional address)
+ "Bounce the current message."
+ (interactive "sBounce To: ")
+ (notmuch-show-view-raw-message)
+ (message-resend address)))
+
+## `notmuch-hello` refresh status message
+
+Add the following to your `.emacs` to get a status message about the change in
+the number of messages in the mail store when refreshing the `notmuch-hello`
+buffer.
+
+ (defvar notmuch-hello-refresh-count 0)
+
+ (defun notmuch-hello-refresh-status-message ()
+ (unless no-display
+ (let* ((new-count
+ (string-to-number
+ (car (process-lines notmuch-command "count"))))
+ (diff-count (- new-count notmuch-hello-refresh-count)))
+ (cond
+ ((= notmuch-hello-refresh-count 0)
+ (message "You have %s messages."
+ (notmuch-hello-nice-number new-count)))
+ ((> diff-count 0)
+ (message "You have %s more messages since last refresh."
+ (notmuch-hello-nice-number diff-count)))
+ ((< diff-count 0)
+ (message "You have %s fewer messages since last refresh."
+ (notmuch-hello-nice-number (- diff-count)))))
+ (setq notmuch-hello-refresh-count new-count))))
+
+ (add-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-status-message)
+
+## Replacing tabs with spaces in subject and header
+
+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:
+
+ (defun notmuch-show-subject-tabs-to-spaces ()
+ "Replace tabs with spaces in subject line."
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (when (re-search-forward "^Subject:" nil t)
+ (while (re-search-forward "\t" (line-end-position) t)
+ (replace-match " " nil nil))))
+
+ (add-hook 'notmuch-show-markup-headers-hook 'notmuch-show-subject-tabs-to-spaces)
+
+And in header lines (this will only work with the yet to be released
+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)))))
+
+ (add-hook 'notmuch-show-hook 'notmuch-show-header-tabs-to-spaces)
+
+## Hiding unread messages in notmuch-show
+
+I like to have an inbox saved search, but only show unread messages when they
+view a thread. This takes two steps:
+
+1. Apply
+[this patch from Mark Walters](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2012/010817.html)
+to add the `notmuch-show-filter-thread` function.
+1. Add the following hook to your emacs configuration:
+
+ (defun expand-only-unread-hook () (interactive)
+ (let ((unread nil)
+ (open (notmuch-show-get-message-ids-for-open-messages)))
+ (notmuch-show-mapc (lambda ()
+ (when (member "unread" (notmuch-show-get-tags))
+ (setq unread t))))
+ (when unread
+ (let ((notmuch-show-hook (remove 'expand-only-unread-hook notmuch-show-hook)))
+ (notmuch-show-filter-thread "tag:unread")))))
+
+ (add-hook 'notmuch-show-hook 'expand-only-unread-hook)
+
+## Changing the color of a saved search based on some other search
+
+I like to have a saved search for my inbox, but have it change color when there
+are thread with unread messages in the inbox. I accomplish this with the
+following code in my emacs config:
+
+ (defun color-inbox-if-unread () (interactive)
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (let ((cnt (car (process-lines "notmuch" "count" "tag:inbox and tag:unread"))))
+ (when (> (string-to-number cnt) 0)
+ (save-excursion
+ (when (search-forward "inbox" (point-max) t)
+ (let* ((overlays (overlays-in (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
+ (overlay (car overlays)))
+ (when overlay
+ (overlay-put overlay 'face '((:inherit bold) (:foreground "green")))))))))))
+ (add-hook 'notmuch-hello-refresh-hook 'color-inbox-if-unread)
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