diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el
index 1a61768d..63f2e07a 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-hello.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-hello.el
@@ -402,8 +402,8 @@ Complete list of currently available key bindings:
   "Run notmuch and display saved searches, known tags, etc."
   (interactive)
 
-  ; Jump through a hoop to get this value from the deprecated variable
-  ; name (`notmuch-folders') or from the default value.
+  ;; Jump through a hoop to get this value from the deprecated variable
+  ;; name (`notmuch-folders') or from the default value.
   (unless notmuch-saved-searches
     (setq notmuch-saved-searches (notmuch-saved-searches)))
 
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
index e33e69a4..241fe8c4 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
@@ -148,14 +148,14 @@ the user hasn't set this variable with the old or new value."
       (setq list (cdr list)))
     (nreverse out)))
 
-; This lets us avoid compiling these replacement functions when emacs
-; is sufficiently new enough to supply them alone. We do the macro
-; treatment rather than just wrapping our defun calls in a when form
-; specifically so that the compiler never sees the code on new emacs,
-; (since the code is triggering warnings that we don't know how to get
-; rid of.
-;
-; A more clever macro here would accept a condition and a list of forms.
+;; This lets us avoid compiling these replacement functions when emacs
+;; is sufficiently new enough to supply them alone. We do the macro
+;; treatment rather than just wrapping our defun calls in a when form
+;; specifically so that the compiler never sees the code on new emacs,
+;; (since the code is triggering warnings that we don't know how to get
+;; rid of.
+;;
+;; A more clever macro here would accept a condition and a list of forms.
 (defmacro compile-on-emacs-prior-to-23 (form)
   "Conditionally evaluate form only on emacs < emacs-23."
   (list 'when (< emacs-major-version 23)
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
index 3fb13ab3..e6a5b31f 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
@@ -137,14 +137,14 @@ indentation."
   "Use external viewers to view all attachments from the current message."
   (interactive)
   (with-current-notmuch-show-message
-   ; We override the mm-inline-media-tests to indicate which message
-   ; parts are already sufficiently handled by the original
-   ; presentation of the message in notmuch-show mode. These parts
-   ; will be inserted directly into the temporary buffer of
-   ; with-current-notmuch-show-message and silently discarded.
-   ;
-   ; Any MIME part not explicitly mentioned here will be handled by an
-   ; external viewer as configured in the various mailcap files.
+   ;; We override the mm-inline-media-tests to indicate which message
+   ;; parts are already sufficiently handled by the original
+   ;; presentation of the message in notmuch-show mode. These parts
+   ;; will be inserted directly into the temporary buffer of
+   ;; with-current-notmuch-show-message and silently discarded.
+   ;;
+   ;; Any MIME part not explicitly mentioned here will be handled by an
+   ;; external viewer as configured in the various mailcap files.
    (let ((mm-inline-media-tests '(
 				  ("text/.*" ignore identity)
 				  ("application/pgp-signature" ignore identity)
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
index da75fafc..6b2c2528 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
-; notmuch.el --- run notmuch within emacs
-;
-; Copyright © Carl Worth
-;
-; This file is part of Notmuch.
-;
-; Notmuch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-; (at your option) any later version.
-;
-; Notmuch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-; General Public License for more details.
-;
-; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-; along with Notmuch.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-;
-; Authors: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+;; notmuch.el --- run notmuch within emacs
+;;
+;; Copyright © Carl Worth
+;;
+;; This file is part of Notmuch.
+;;
+;; Notmuch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
+;;
+;; Notmuch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+;; General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with Notmuch.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+;;
+;; Authors: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
 
-; This is an emacs-based interface to the notmuch mail system.
-;
-; You will first need to have the notmuch program installed and have a
-; notmuch database built in order to use this. See
-; http://notmuchmail.org for details.
-;
-; To install this software, copy it to a directory that is on the
-; `load-path' variable within emacs (a good candidate is
-; /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp). If you are viewing this from the
-; notmuch source distribution then you can simply run:
-;
-;	sudo make install-emacs
-;
-; to install it.
-;
-; Then, to actually run it, add:
-;
-;	(require 'notmuch)
-;
-; to your ~/.emacs file, and then run "M-x notmuch" from within emacs,
-; or run:
-;
-;	emacs -f notmuch
-;
-; Have fun, and let us know if you have any comment, questions, or
-; kudos: Notmuch list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> (subscription is not
-; required, but is available from http://notmuchmail.org).
+;; This is an emacs-based interface to the notmuch mail system.
+;;
+;; You will first need to have the notmuch program installed and have a
+;; notmuch database built in order to use this. See
+;; http://notmuchmail.org for details.
+;;
+;; To install this software, copy it to a directory that is on the
+;; `load-path' variable within emacs (a good candidate is
+;; /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp). If you are viewing this from the
+;; notmuch source distribution then you can simply run:
+;;
+;;	sudo make install-emacs
+;;
+;; to install it.
+;;
+;; Then, to actually run it, add:
+;;
+;;	(require 'notmuch)
+;;
+;; to your ~/.emacs file, and then run "M-x notmuch" from within emacs,
+;; or run:
+;;
+;;	emacs -f notmuch
+;;
+;; Have fun, and let us know if you have any comment, questions, or
+;; kudos: Notmuch list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> (subscription is not
+;; required, but is available from http://notmuchmail.org).
 
 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
 (require 'mm-view)
@@ -139,10 +139,10 @@ This is basically just `format-kbd-macro' but we also convert ESC to M-."
 	"M-"
       (concat desc " "))))
 
-; I would think that emacs would have code handy for walking a keymap
-; and generating strings for each key, and I would prefer to just call
-; that. But I couldn't find any (could be all implemented in C I
-; suppose), so I wrote my own here.
+;; I would think that emacs would have code handy for walking a keymap
+;; and generating strings for each key, and I would prefer to just call
+;; that. But I couldn't find any (could be all implemented in C I
+;; suppose), so I wrote my own here.
 (defun notmuch-substitute-one-command-key-with-prefix (prefix binding)
   "For a key binding, return a string showing a human-readable
 representation of the prefixed key as well as the first line of
@@ -271,14 +271,14 @@ For a mouse binding, return nil."
 (defun notmuch-search-scroll-down ()
   "Move backward through the search results by one window's worth."
   (interactive)
-  ; I don't know why scroll-down doesn't signal beginning-of-buffer
-  ; the way that scroll-up signals end-of-buffer, but c'est la vie.
-  ;
-  ; So instead of trapping a signal we instead check whether the
-  ; window begins on the first line of the buffer and if so, move
-  ; directly to that position. (We have to count lines since the
-  ; window-start position is not the same as point-min due to the
-  ; invisible thread-ID characters on the first line.
+  ;; I don't know why scroll-down doesn't signal beginning-of-buffer
+  ;; the way that scroll-up signals end-of-buffer, but c'est la vie.
+  ;;
+  ;; So instead of trapping a signal we instead check whether the
+  ;; window begins on the first line of the buffer and if so, move
+  ;; directly to that position. (We have to count lines since the
+  ;; window-start position is not the same as point-min due to the
+  ;; invisible thread-ID characters on the first line.
   (if (equal (count-lines (point-min) (window-start)) 0)
       (goto-char (point-min))
     (scroll-down nil)))