Hi David,

I tried that as well when it hit the problem. I got the same result. :-(

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:36 David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
jonathan@teamwilner.com writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry in advance for what's likely a basic configuration question on the Emacs/notmuch side of things. I'd like to have a shortcut that goes into notmuch-tree from notmuch-hello. Following the docs & other configurations, it appears that :search-type 'tree' should work. An example from my configuration is below:
>
>  (:name "inbox tree" :query "tag:inbox date:2021" :search-type 'tree :key "i")
>
> This also appears to register properly with Emacs. Checking via the customization settings, the option of "tree" is properly ticked.  However, no matter what I do, the results always open in the standard configuration, not the tree.
>
> I'm guessing this is a simple error of my own doing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try without the ' in front of tree. At least if I use
customize-variable, I get :search-type tree, no quote.

d