Re: notmuch emacs mode could be friendlier when the user has never run "notmuch setup"

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, notmuch\r
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+Subject: Re: notmuch emacs mode could be friendlier when the user has never\r
+       run "notmuch setup"\r
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+Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:\r
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+> At the very least, the error message could say "please run 'notmuch\r
+> setup' from a shell".\r
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+This is implimented in git commit 1c2f2c960c (with the patch series in\r
+this thread), and will be part of notmuch 0.18.  So far I only added the\r
+assert to notmuch-hello (also known as M-x notmuch), but it would be\r
+easy to add to other entry-points if people think it's a good idea.\r
+\r
+>\r
+> The current behavior (notmuch and notmuch-emacs 0.16-1 on debian) is to\r
+> open a *notmuch-hello* buffer that says :\r
+>\r
+>   Welcome to notmuch. You have\r
+>\r
+> And in the minibuffer, a message says "notmuch exited with status 1"\r
+>\r