From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Bug: emacs 23.2 doesn't like ido-completing-read
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:21:38 +0000
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:39:32 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:17:55 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been experimenting with notmuch-always-prompt-for-sender on my
> > debian stable setup (emacs 23.2.1) and it doesn't like
> > ido-completing-read. It goes to the minibuffer and then it seems to be
> > impossible to exit the minibuffer.
> > 
> > I can find an emacs bug report #3274 and some discussion
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/27856 which indicates that it
> > is a problem with ido initialisation. Unfortunately I can't get from there to a
> > solution (except upgrade emacs).
> 
> I'm not sure that notmuch-mua.el should be using `ido-completing-read',
> and certainly not without `require'ing it.
> 
> Is there a particular thing required that `completing-read' doesn't do?

Thanks for the suggestion: I can confirm that with ido-completing-read
replaced by completing-read it works nicely. The "ido" version shows the
possibilities for you which is nice, but this works fine.

Many thanks

Mark