emacs integration

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:02:16PM +0200, Gauthier Östervall wrote:
> 
> I see, thank you. I am actually not interested in the source itself
> for now, I only attempted to get the emacs integration to work.
> I actually got notmuch via apt-get, and if I try to apt-get install
> notmuch-emacs, it says I have it already.
> So it seems I have notmuch-emacs installed, what I don't know is where
> to point emacs to for it to find this installation.
> 
> Now emacs seems to have found them somehow. I had a system restart in
> between, maybe that's what fixed it.
> After examining my load-path, I saw that
> /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/notmuch was added there.
> Who modified load-path, and how? I could see no environment variable
> about notmuch, maybe everything under site-lisp/ is added to load-path
> at each emacs start?

This is a standard way to deal with external packages in emacs.  The
setup stuff goes in the site start file.  The exact location is
distribution dependent, but generally it is something like
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/.

You should not worry about these details if you are using notmuch-emacs
as provided by your distribution.  Just put your personal configurations
in your ~/.emacs or better yet, use customize to set and save them.
Then `M-x notmuch RET' should get you started.

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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