From f9fbd1ee3bfd679175d88af403752d87a730349f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:11:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] emacs: notmuch-search: avoid wiping out buffer-local
 variables

---
 emacs/notmuch.el | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
index dd18f2e1..c97997fe 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
@@ -987,7 +987,11 @@ the configured default sort order."
     (if no-display
 	(set-buffer buffer)
       (switch-to-buffer buffer))
-    (notmuch-search-mode)
+    ;; avoid wiping out third party buffer-local variables in the case
+    ;; where we're just refreshing or changing the sort order of an
+    ;; existing search results buffer
+    (unless (eq major-mode 'notmuch-search-mode)
+      (notmuch-search-mode))
     ;; Don't track undo information for this buffer
     (set 'buffer-undo-list t)
     (set 'notmuch-search-query-string query)
-- 
2.43.0