notmuch-emacs tree view: Unrecognized option --sort=newest-first

notmuch-emacs tree view: Unrecognized option --sort=newest-first

[Karthik Chikmagalur]

The Notmuch tree view interface in Emacs has stopped working for me. The
*Notmuch errors* buffer reports the following when I try Z or z (notmuch
tree view search):

Unrecognized option: --sort=newest-first
command: notmuch show --body\=false --format\=sexp --format-version\=4 --sort\=newest-first --entire-thread thread\:000000000000bc32\ and\ \(tag\:/\^list/\ and\ tag\:unread\ and\ date\:1M..\)
exit status: 1
stderr:
Unrecognized option: --sort=newest-first

I checked the man page for notmuch-show and there doesn't appear to be a
--sort option. I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

My notmuch version (from my distro repo) is 0.32.2, and my notmuch-emacs
version (from the MELPA repo for Emacs) is 20210805.1158.

Any idea what's going wrong?

Karthik Chikmagalur

Re: notmuch-emacs tree view: Unrecognized option --sort=newest-first

[David Bremner]

Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com> writes:

>
> My notmuch version (from my distro repo) is 0.32.2, and my notmuch-emacs
> version (from the MELPA repo for Emacs) is 20210805.1158.
>
> Any idea what's going wrong?

What's going wrong is that MELPA is packaging the development branch of
notmuch-emacs which uses features not in 0.32.2.  I suggest using the
distro-packages for notmuch-emacs, if they exist.

d

Re: notmuch-emacs tree view: Unrecognized option --sort=newest-first

[Karthik Chikmagalur]

Thank you David, this resolved my issue.

I don't actually remember installing notmuch from MELPA, turns out it
was installed as a dependency for notmuch-bookmarks. There doesn't seem
to be a way to install notmuch-bookmarks from a package archive without
installing the lastest build of notmuch-emacs as well, so I've resorted
to just downloading notmuch-bookmarks.el and placing it in ~/.emacs.d.

-Karthik

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> My notmuch version (from my distro repo) is 0.32.2, and my notmuch-emacs
>> version (from the MELPA repo for Emacs) is 20210805.1158.
>>
>> Any idea what's going wrong?
>
> What's going wrong is that MELPA is packaging the development branch of
> notmuch-emacs which uses features not in 0.32.2.  I suggest using the
> distro-packages for notmuch-emacs, if they exist.
>
> d