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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, notmuch mailing list\r
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+Subject: Re: emacs compatibility?\r
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+Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:\r
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+> i notice that in the current master, debian/notmuch-emacs.README.Debian\r
+> contains the following stanza:\r
+>\r
+> ------------\r
+> * This package currently works only with emacs 23. Users of \r
+> pre-release snapshots of emacs 24 can expect problems.\r
+> ------------\r
+>\r
+> I'm using notmuch (and notmuch-emacs) 0.16 with emacs24, and i don't\r
+> think i'm seeing any such problems. But maybe i'm just lucky and/or\r
+> conservative and don't happen to tickle any of the incompatibilities?\r
+>\r
+> Or is the above README (which is dated from 2011) stale? If so, as a\r
+> user i'd appreciate an update that reflect the current expectations of\r
+> the notmuch development community about which versions of emacs are\r
+> considered well-supported for the upcoming 0.17 release.\r
+\r
+Yeah, emacs24 is fine with 0.17~pre-whatever. Someone(TM) should update\r
+that README.\r
+\r
+d\r