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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, Jeff Templon <templon@nikhef.nl>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:39:59 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnw83d5c.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cun1s8owvjc.fsf@dme.org>

David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 13:39:10 +02, Jeff Templon wrote:

>> Right.  Poor example.  I guess the better question is, in a screen full
>> of threads matching a particular query, how do I do a mass action on
>> only those messages that match the query and not on the threads?
>
> There's no easy way to do that now.
>
> Maybe we should make it such that a prefix argument to the tag operation
> affects only matching messages in the affected threads?

A workaround could be to use "c q" to copy the query, then use that on
the command line with "notmuch tag".

d

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-17 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-17  8:06 tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages) Jeff Templon
2018-10-17  9:48 ` Gregor Zattler
2018-10-17  9:58 ` David Edmondson
2018-10-17 11:39   ` Jeff Templon
2018-10-17 13:29     ` David Edmondson
2018-10-17 13:39       ` David Bremner [this message]
2018-10-17 14:08         ` Jeff Templon
2018-10-17 22:16           ` Carl Worth
2018-10-18  8:37             ` Jeff Templon
2018-12-01 16:19               ` Keith Amidon

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