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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: initialize ido mode in notmuch-mua.el\r
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+Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> ido-completing-read is used in notmuch-mua.el without any\r
+> initialization. This should work but a bug (emacs bug #3247) in some\r
+> emacs 23 versions (including 23.2.1 from Debian stable) causes emacs\r
+> to get stuck in the mini-buffer. This tests to see if ido-mode has\r
+> been initialized and if not calls it. This avoids the bug for these\r
+> older versions of emacs.\r
+>\r
+> This is the only place that ido-completing-read is used so an alternative \r
+> would be to replace ido-completing-read by completing-read but cworth \r
+> expressed a preference for the ido version in \r
+> id:"87wrhfvk6a.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.\r
+\r
+This patch was tagged wip, but then there was no progress ;). It still\r
+applies cleanly, and doesn't seem to do any harm in emacs 23.4 nor\r
+emacs24.3. I don't have 23.2 at hand but I guess Tomi or Mark can\r
+confirm it actually fixes the bug there.\r
+\r
+I propose we either apply the patch or ::wontfix the bug.\r
+\r
+cheers,\r
+\r
+d\r