Re: [bug?] emacs interface - some mark read tag changes may have failed

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

> after I press CTRL-g I get this text in the buffer:
>   [some mark read tag changes may have failed]

This is essentially notmuch-emacs complaining that it was interrupted,
so not really telling us about the underlying issue.

>
> I launched emacs with:
>
>   emacs -Q --eval "(require 'notmuch)"
>

To be honest, I'm a bit surprised this works. How does emacs find
notmuch.el in this case? Or did you maybe mean emacs -q?

> how can I debug this kind of errors?
>

I suggest using M-x toggle-debug-on-quit, so that you get a traceback.

It may help to specify versions of notmuch and emacs when reporting problems.

> is there a way i can reply to the affected email dumping the raw message in
> a text file and using it with emacs as if it's a "normal message"?
>

If you can get the text you want, then you can copy and paste it into a
message composition buffer (e.g. from C-x m). notmuch show --format=text
may offer your best bet of recovering message text.

d