buggy tags

buggy tags

[Tom Hirschowitz]

Hi all,

I sometimes mistype some tags, e.g., collaegues instead of colleagues,
etc. Of course, I then replace them with the right version.

But notmuch keeps track of these wrong tags (as of all others) and
proposes them when autocompleting, which after a few years of using
notmuch, starts being significantly annoying.

Is there a way of getting rid of them?

Thanks,
Tom

Re: buggy tags

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Tom Hirschowitz
<tom.hirschowitz@univ-smb.fr> wrote:
> I sometimes mistype some tags, e.g., collaegues instead of colleagues,
> etc. Of course, I then replace them with the right version.
>
> But notmuch keeps track of these wrong tags (as of all others) and
> proposes them when autocompleting, which after a few years of using
> notmuch, starts being significantly annoying.

Notmuch only completes to tags that are actually present in the
database. So you've missed some.

> Is there a way of getting rid of them?

This will list all the tags you have:

$ notmuch search --output=tags "*"

And this will replace a wrong tag with the right tag:

$ notmuch tag +right-tag -wrong-tag tag:wrong-tag

BR,
Jani.

Re: buggy tags

[Tom Hirschowitz]

Great, thanks!
Tom

> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Tom Hirschowitz
> <tom.hirschowitz@univ-smb.fr> wrote:
>> I sometimes mistype some tags, e.g., collaegues instead of colleagues,
>> etc. Of course, I then replace them with the right version.
>>
>> But notmuch keeps track of these wrong tags (as of all others) and
>> proposes them when autocompleting, which after a few years of using
>> notmuch, starts being significantly annoying.
>
> Notmuch only completes to tags that are actually present in the
> database. So you've missed some.
>
>> Is there a way of getting rid of them?
>
> This will list all the tags you have:
>
> $ notmuch search --output=tags "*"
>
> And this will replace a wrong tag with the right tag:
>
> $ notmuch tag +right-tag -wrong-tag tag:wrong-tag
>
> BR,
> Jani.