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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>,
	Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>,
	Mike Kelly <pioto@pioto.org>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Have notmuch count default to showing the total.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:33:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3y8td44.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31veoh7bg.fsf@x200.gr8dns.org>

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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:19:47 -0700, Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:01:35 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:

> > 1) I often want to know how many mails are in my db. "notmuch count" or
> > "notmuch count *" is the intuitive syntax I would use for that. Right
> > now there is no way as far as I can see.
> 
> I use "notmuch count To" - not very intuitive, though.

Unfortunately, this doesn't give the desired result.

Think Shakespearean and you can get an accurate count though:

      notmuch count to be or not to be

-Carl

OK, we need a simpler search syntax than that...

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08 19:39 [PATCH] Have notmuch count default to showing the total Mike Kelly
2010-04-09 13:01 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-09 17:19   ` Dirk Hohndel
2010-04-09 23:33     ` Carl Worth [this message]
2010-04-09 19:28   ` Anthony Towns
2010-04-09 19:39     ` Mark Anderson
2010-04-09 20:07     ` Jameson Rollins
2010-04-09 20:19     ` Mike Kelly
2010-04-10  0:48 ` Carl Worth

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