Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

[Glyn Millington]

Greetings!

Emacs 24.4.1 (Arch Linux if that helps)
Notmuch 0.19

The problem is that I can neither compose a new email nor reply to an old
email unless I have already used  message mode (via Gnus) first.
I get an error message - Google on the error message below gets me nowhere!

Can anyone give me  pointer?

with thanks

Glyn


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")
mapcar(#[(item) "\301\302\b@\"\bAB\207" [item format "%s"] 3] ((From . "Glyn Millington <glyn@123456789.org>") (User-Agent . "Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)") (From . "Glyn Millington <glyn@123456789.org>") (User-Agent . "Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)") (From . "Glyn Millington <glyn@123456789.org>") (User-Agent . "Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)") (From . "Glyn Millington <glyn@123456789.org>") (User-Agent . "Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)") (From . "Glyn Millington <glyn@123456789.orgy>") (User-Agent . "Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)")

Re: Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

[David Bremner]

Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:

> Greetings!
>
> Emacs 24.4.1 (Arch Linux if that helps)
> Notmuch 0.19
>
> The problem is that I can neither compose a new email nor reply to an old
> email unless I have already used  message mode (via Gnus) first.
> I get an error message - Google on the error message below gets me nowhere!
>

Can you duplicate the error with a minimal .emacs? In particular save
the following to "run-notmuch.el" and start emacs with

% emacs -Q --load run-emacs.el

;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------
;; adjust the following line to point to either the .el or .elc of
;; notmuch.el

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/notmuch/dot/el")
(require 'notmuch)
(notmuch-mua-mail)

;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------

If that doesn't error, then the most likely trigger is some setting or
add on package in your .emacs. Once we know what the trigger is, we can
try to figure out where bug lies.

Re: Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

[Glyn Millington]

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> Emacs 24.4.1 (Arch Linux if that helps)
>> Notmuch 0.19
>>
>> The problem is that I can neither compose a new email nor reply to an old
>> email unless I have already used  message mode (via Gnus) first.
>> I get an error message - Google on the error message below gets me nowhere!
>>
>
> Can you duplicate the error with a minimal .emacs? In particular save
> the following to "run-notmuch.el" and start emacs with
>
> % emacs -Q --load run-emacs.el
>
> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------
> ;; adjust the following line to point to either the .el or .elc of
> ;; notmuch.el
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/notmuch/dot/el")
> (require 'notmuch)
> (notmuch-mua-mail)
>
> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If that doesn't error, then the most likely trigger is some setting or
> add on package in your .emacs. Once we know what the trigger is, we can
> try to figure out where bug lies.

Thanks David,

It didn't error! 

A thorough trawl through init.el revealed that this line is the culprit

(setq message-mail-user-agent t)

which refers on to mail-user-agent, which was invoking gnus!


Sorry for the noise. 


atb

Glyn

Re: Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

[Tomi Ollila]

On Wed, Mar 25 2015, Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> wrote:

> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> Emacs 24.4.1 (Arch Linux if that helps)
>>> Notmuch 0.19
>>>
>>> The problem is that I can neither compose a new email nor reply to an old
>>> email unless I have already used  message mode (via Gnus) first.
>>> I get an error message - Google on the error message below gets me nowhere!
>>>
>>
>> Can you duplicate the error with a minimal .emacs? In particular save
>> the following to "run-notmuch.el" and start emacs with
>>
>> % emacs -Q --load run-emacs.el
>>
>> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------
>> ;; adjust the following line to point to either the .el or .elc of
>> ;; notmuch.el
>>
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/notmuch/dot/el")
>> (require 'notmuch)
>> (notmuch-mua-mail)
>>
>> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> If that doesn't error, then the most likely trigger is some setting or
>> add on package in your .emacs. Once we know what the trigger is, we can
>> try to figure out where bug lies.
>
> Thanks David,
>
> It didn't error! 
>
> A thorough trawl through init.el revealed that this line is the culprit
>
> (setq message-mail-user-agent t)
>
> which refers on to mail-user-agent, which was invoking gnus!
>
>
> Sorry for the noise. 

Instead of noise I think this is valuable information...

... if we had "troubleshooting" (or just put to emacstips.mdwn) page
we could add something along the line:

   emacs -Q -L /path/to/notmuch/elisp/dir --eval "(require 'notmuch)"

(with some explanation) there (e.g. M-x notmuch-hello & M-x notmuch-mua-mail)

(emacs manpage says -L 'add's this dir to load-path -- I verified
it "prepends"! it to load-path (like add-to-list does by default))

>
> atb
>
> Glyn

Tomi

Re: Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

>
> Instead of noise I think this is valuable information...
>
> ... if we had "troubleshooting" (or just put to emacstips.mdwn) page
> we could add something along the line:
>
>    emacs -Q -L /path/to/notmuch/elisp/dir --eval "(require 'notmuch)"
>

For the record, I started a "troubleshooting" page at

    http://notmuchmail.org/bugs

It's a wiki, so feel free to improve this page.

d