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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
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Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I=E2=80=99m using emacs notmuch together with Gnus and I noticed that M-x=
=20
> compose-mail stopped working properly for me since.  I identified=20
> notmuch as culprit: (requre =E2=80=99notmuch) sets the user-customizable=
=20
> variable mail-user-agent.  I believe that such behavior is not=20
> expected of emacs modules.
>
> A patch [1] has been proposed to fix this in 2014, but never=20
> accepted.  Is there a reason why the problematic behavior has been=20
> 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