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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,\r
+ 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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+On Sat, Jan 25 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+\r
+> Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> 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
+How about doing it with defadvice with something like:\r
+\r
+(from http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/27856 one can notice\r
+this happening with emacs 23.3 -- David can check whether 23.4 if\r
+affected)\r
+\r
+(if (and (= emacs-major-version 23) (< emacs-minor-version 4))\r
+ (defadvice ido-completing-read (before notmuch-ido-mode-init activate)\r
+ (unless (ido-mode) (ido-mode t))\r
+ (ad-disable-advice 'ido-completing-read 'before 'notmuch-ido-mode-init)))\r
+\r
+>\r
+> cheers,\r
+>\r
+> d\r
+\r
+\r
+Tomi\r