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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 5a63211d..c0b67a31 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
 notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
 dependencies.
 
+notmuch.el installation
+-----------------------
+Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
+
+	sudo make install-emacs
+
+Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
+available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
+or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
+
 Dependencies
 ------------
 Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
@@ -28,6 +38,11 @@ which are each described below:
 
 	Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
 
+	After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command
+	named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At
+	least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config
+	program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ).
+
 	GMime 2.4
 	---------
 	GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.