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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [bug] Invalid function: notmuch-user-agent (was: notmuch release 0.33 now available)
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 19:10:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgsppr3x.fsf@no.workgroup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eea1r65c.fsf@tethera.net>

Hi David,
* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [2021-09-06; 10:00]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>> I therefore tried to change `mail-user-agent' via the customization
>> interface (clicking the radio button "Other:" and providing
>> "notmuch-user-agent" as value) but then I got an error
>> message:
>>
>> custom-variable-mark-to-save: Saving mail-user-agent: Invalid function: notmuch-user-agent
>>
>
> This seems like a bug in the defcustom for mail-user-agent (i.e. a bug
> in emacs).
> I think you will find that
>
>    (setq mail-user-agent 'notmuch-user-agent)

thanks, I will use this.

> works. My reading of the documentation (and either my reading or the
> docs could be wrong) is that the symbol for a mail-user-agent need not
> be a function.  Quoting the docstring for define-mail-user-agent
>
>     SYMBOL can be any Lisp symbol.  Its function definition and/or
>     value as a variable do not matter for this usage; we use only certain
>     properties on its property list, to encode the rest of the arguments.
>
> Other user agents, e.g. 'gnus-user-agent, 'message-user-agent, and
> 'sendmail-user-agent do not seem to have function definition. On the
> other hand, it is a bit surprising that no-one noticed a problem with
> "Other" mail-user-agent values before now.

Actually this is a bit above my lisp knowledge.  Do you
think your explanation suffices for a bug report against emacs?

Ciao; Gregor
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-06 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 20:29 notmuch release 0.33 now available David Bremner
2021-09-06  6:49 ` [bug] Invalid function: notmuch-user-agent (was: notmuch release 0.33 now available) Gregor Zattler
2021-09-06 17:00   ` David Bremner
2021-09-06 17:10     ` Gregor Zattler [this message]
2021-09-06 17:28       ` David Bremner

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