Re: notmuch-search not excluding excluded tags

["Richard H. Stanton" <rhstanton@berkeley.edu>]

Running 

(notmuch-search "tag:unread" t t)

gives the correct results, so it looks like notmuch-search-hide-excluded is not getting set to the correct default value.

> On Apr 16, 2024, at 3:15 PM, Richard H. Stanton <rhstanton@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> Oh, wait… It's not working on my office machine either. I’ll start tracing things and see what happens.
> 
> By the way,
> 
> (notmuch-config-get "search.exclude_tags”)
> 
> returns
> 
> "spam
> trash"
> 
> which is what it should be returning.
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2024, at 12:00 PM, Richard H. Stanton <rhstanton@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, David.
>> 
>> It all seems to be working fine on my work machine! 
>> 
>> I can’t decide if that’s good or bad news… I suspect it’ll take me longer to track down what’s going on than if the behavior were consistent on my two machines.
>> 
>>> On Apr 16, 2024, at 7:23 AM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Richard Stanton <rhstanton@berkeley.edu> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I have spam and trash defined as excluded tags for notmuch searches and when I run (at the command line) the command
>>>> 
>>>> notmuch search tag:unread
>>>> 
>>>> I get a list of unread messages that does *not* include unread spam or trash emails. But when I put the following into my *scratch* buffer and execute it:
>>>> 
>>>> (notmuch-search “tag:unread”)
>>>> 
>>>> I now get ALL unread messages, including those tagged as spam or trash. Am I missing something?
>>> 
>>> Hi Richard;
>>> 
>>> As for as I know it _should_ work (modulo the curly quotes being invalid
>>> syntax). I don't have any real hypothesis for what is going wrong, but a
>>> few ideas for gather data.
>>> 
>>> 1) As a start, maybe try evaluating
>>> 
>>>      (notmuch-config-get "search.exclude_tags")
>>> 
>>> in emacs and make sure it matches the corresponding
>>> 
>>> notmuch config get search.exclude_tags
>>> 
>>> 2) If possible, run notmuch with a minimal configuration (i.e. just loading
>>> notmuch, no personal configuration or other packages). There is a script
>>> ./devel/try-emacs-mua in the source if you have a self-built notmuch.
>> 
> 
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