The completion script depends on bash-completion 1.90 or later, with
_init_completion function. If that's not present, for some reason, the
completion currently fails with an ugly message, messing up user's
command line:
$ notmuch -bash: _init_completion: command not found
It's better to just not complete
{
local _notmuch_commands="compact config count dump help insert new reply restore search setup show tag"
local arg cur prev words cword split
+
+ # require bash-completion with _init_completion
+ type -t _init_completion >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
+
_init_completion || return
COMPREPLY=()