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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Jeremy Nickurak <not-much@trk.nickurak.ca> writes:

> Don't they need to be in the index in order to match the ignore condition,
> which then allows them to be excluded from usual activities?

new.ignore is not about searching. It is about indexing.

A similar, but different feature for searching is search.exclude_tags

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