From: Brian Sniffen <bts@evenmere.org>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 23:32:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1a76y6s.fsf@istari.evenmere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmprtqgo.fsf@tethera.net>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I bump this. Actually more simple than that, how to search for thread
>> in which I have participated and Jian has participated? Excluding
>> threads in which Dave participated is perhaps more complicated.
>
> I don't know of an efficient way to do this. You could write a script
> something like
>
> notmuch search --output=threads from:Xu > A
> notmuch search --output=threads from:Jian > B
> comm -12 A B
>
> I think the output is sorted, but you might also have to sort A and B
I did test that part before posting mine, and the output is inverted.
--sort=oldest-first *also* gets it wrong, though in more subtle
ways. Piping through `sort -u` is the only way to be sure (I can't
imagine the -u helping, but I also can't imagine it hurting and it's
cheap).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-14 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-09 21:55 find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave Xu Wang
2017-06-13 15:57 ` Xu Wang
2017-06-13 23:31 ` David Bremner
2017-06-14 0:24 ` Xu Wang
2017-06-14 3:32 ` Brian Sniffen [this message]
2017-06-15 17:54 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-06-15 20:20 ` David Bremner
2017-06-16 1:07 ` Matt Armstrong
2017-06-16 6:28 ` Gaute Hope
2017-06-21 20:04 ` Matt Armstrong
2017-06-21 21:30 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-06-22 6:08 ` Gaute Hope
2017-06-22 6:22 ` Gaute Hope
2017-06-23 0:00 ` Matt Armstrong
2017-06-25 15:46 ` finding incoming messages in threads in which i've participated [was: Re: find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave] Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-06-25 17:14 ` David Bremner
2017-06-26 20:49 ` Matt Armstrong
2017-06-26 23:09 ` David Bremner
2017-08-20 13:35 ` Jani Nikula
2017-08-20 13:48 ` Jani Nikula
2017-08-20 21:32 ` [PATCH] WIP: add thread subqueries David Bremner
2017-08-21 1:35 ` David Bremner
2017-09-07 17:47 ` Gaute Hope
2017-09-07 18:51 ` David Bremner
2017-06-25 17:40 ` finding incoming messages in threads in which i've participated [was: Re: find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave] Brian Sniffen
2017-06-26 20:54 ` Matt Armstrong
2017-06-22 20:15 ` find threads where I and Jian participated but not Dave Matt Armstrong
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