On Jan 28, 2012 7:06 AM, "Dmitry Kurochkin" <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> The tag syntax check in `notmuch-tag' function was too strict and did
> not allow nmbug tags with "::".  Since the check is done for all
> tagging operations in Emacs UI, this basically means that no nmbug
> tags can be changed.  The patch relaxes the tag syntax check to allow
> any tag names that do not include whitespace characters.

Imho the syntax check should be in cli, or lib even. I posted a patch to
cli some time ago when I realized it's possible to add tag "-" but you
can't remove it with the current cli. (On the road, can't find the message
id now.)

> ---
>  emacs/notmuch.el |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
> index 9813e0a..0de6123 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ notmuch-after-tag-hook will be run."
>   ;; Perform some validation
>   (when (null tags) (error "No tags given"))
>   (mapc (lambda (tag)
> -         (unless (string-match-p "^[-+][-+_.[:word:]]+$" tag)
> +         (unless (string-match-p "^[-+]\\S-+$" tag)
>            (error "Tag must be of the form `+this_tag' or `-that_tag'")))
>        tags)
>   (run-hooks 'notmuch-before-tag-hook)
> --
> 1.7.8.3
>
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