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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:54:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuf1nnl5.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmprtqgo.fsf@tethera.net>

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On Tue 2017-06-13 20:31:19 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> 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

that said, it'd be really nice to have something like this in notmuch
core.

One of my long-standing wishes is to be able to say "show me mails in my
inbox from people who have replied to messages i've sent them".

This could be re-framed as "show me threads in which i've participated,
where there are some messages flagged with 'inbox'".  but generating a
huge list of all threads in which i've participated, just to be able to
do an intersection operation with a (much smaller) list of all threads
that have a message with the inbox flag seems like a pretty gross
inefficiency.

     --dkg

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-15 18:04 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
2017-06-15 17:54     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor [this message]
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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