X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=e51b397cc2a9d77a56424074775dfcdaf4b5abfb;hp=bc7bc6778276490279dced12e32c0b39421695e5;hb=de1ed86b79a1428cd2f0cf7e3a80748367588e8b;hpb=a875e17211e9e9a7b6fea98430a13bc6985910ca

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bc7bc677..e51b397c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,16 +18,6 @@ will call configure for you). See this command:
 for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
 configure stage.
 
-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
@@ -42,10 +32,12 @@ 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 ).
+	Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
+	Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
+	1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
+	when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
+	reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
+	the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
 
 	GMime 2.4
 	---------