Re: Can't compose message in Emacs - Notmuch

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: glyn.millington@gmail.com, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: Can't compose message in Emacs  - Notmuch\r
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+On Wed, Mar 25 2015, Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> wrote:\r
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+> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:\r
+>>\r
+>>> Greetings!\r
+>>>\r
+>>> Emacs 24.4.1 (Arch Linux if that helps)\r
+>>> Notmuch 0.19\r
+>>>\r
+>>> The problem is that I can neither compose a new email nor reply to an old\r
+>>> email unless I have already used  message mode (via Gnus) first.\r
+>>> I get an error message - Google on the error message below gets me nowhere!\r
+>>>\r
+>>\r
+>> Can you duplicate the error with a minimal .emacs? In particular save\r
+>> the following to "run-notmuch.el" and start emacs with\r
+>>\r
+>> % emacs -Q --load run-emacs.el\r
+>>\r
+>> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------\r
+>> ;; adjust the following line to point to either the .el or .elc of\r
+>> ;; notmuch.el\r
+>>\r
+>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/notmuch/dot/el")\r
+>> (require 'notmuch)\r
+>> (notmuch-mua-mail)\r
+>>\r
+>> ;; -8x-------------------------------------------------------------\r
+>>\r
+>> If that doesn't error, then the most likely trigger is some setting or\r
+>> add on package in your .emacs. Once we know what the trigger is, we can\r
+>> try to figure out where bug lies.\r
+>\r
+> Thanks David,\r
+>\r
+> It didn't error! \r
+>\r
+> A thorough trawl through init.el revealed that this line is the culprit\r
+>\r
+> (setq message-mail-user-agent t)\r
+>\r
+> which refers on to mail-user-agent, which was invoking gnus!\r
+>\r
+>\r
+> Sorry for the noise. \r
+\r
+Instead of noise I think this is valuable information...\r
+\r
+... if we had "troubleshooting" (or just put to emacstips.mdwn) page\r
+we could add something along the line:\r
+\r
+   emacs -Q -L /path/to/notmuch/elisp/dir --eval "(require 'notmuch)"\r
+\r
+(with some explanation) there (e.g. M-x notmuch-hello & M-x notmuch-mua-mail)\r
+\r
+(emacs manpage says -L 'add's this dir to load-path -- I verified\r
+it "prepends"! it to load-path (like add-to-list does by default))\r
+\r
+>\r
+> atb\r
+>\r
+> Glyn\r
+\r
+Tomi\r