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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: add emacs/try-emacs-mua.sh\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> try-emacs-mua.sh provides an easy way to try and experiment with the\r
+> notmuch emacs client provided in emacs subdirectory of notmuch source\r
+> tree.\r
+\r
+I wondered if this made more sense in the devel subdirectory as\r
+primarily a developer tool.\r
+\r
+> +# ensure we don't load .elc files that are older than corresponding .el file\r
+> +perl -e 'use strict; use warnings;\r
+> +while (<*.elc>) {\r
+[snip]\r
+> + }\r
+> +}'\r
+\r
+I think this part can be simplified using the emacs variable\r
+`load-prefer-newer'. Which should really be the default in emacs, but\r
+*shrug*. untested:\r
+\r
+--eval "(setq load-prefer-newer t)" -L foo -l bar\r
+\r