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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Importing notmuch should not change user configuration
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:40:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9r6z9kj.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760dexzai.fsf@grothesque.org>, <548E21FD.4040307@poczta.fm>

Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I’m using emacs notmuch together with Gnus and I noticed that M-x 
> compose-mail stopped working properly for me since.  I identified 
> notmuch as culprit: (requre ’notmuch) sets the user-customizable 
> variable mail-user-agent.  I believe that such behavior is not 
> expected of emacs modules.
>
> A patch [1] has been proposed to fix this in 2014, but never 
> accepted.  Is there a reason why the problematic behavior has been 
> kept?

I seems like the discussion in that thread stalled without any real
concensus (I have relinked this message to that thread, hopefully). As a
general principle I agree notmuch should not be changing global varibles
just by being loaded; OTOH I have not carefully analyzed this situation.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-23 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-12 18:54 [PATCH] emacs: do not change users' mail agent configuration Łukasz Stelmach
2014-12-13 21:04 ` Jani Nikula
2014-12-13 21:54   ` Lukasz Stelmach
2014-12-14  9:46     ` Jani Nikula
2014-12-14 23:49       ` Lukasz Stelmach
2017-08-23 13:40         ` David Bremner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-23 12:07 Importing notmuch should not change user configuration Christoph Groth

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