exclude tags

exclude tags

[Wael Nasreddine]

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Hey guys,

I am trying to exclude any thread that has the tag *killed* but it's
either a bug or something that I am simply doing wrong.

 $ notmuch search tag:work and tag:unread and tag:inbox and not tag:killed | grep 'killed' | wc -l
 1

I am getting the same result with Trusty shipped notmuch v0.17 and with
today's build.

Wael


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Re: exclude tags

[Kushal Kumaran]

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Wael Nasreddine <wael.nasreddine@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey guys,
>
> I am trying to exclude any thread that has the tag *killed* but it's
> either a bug or something that I am simply doing wrong.
>
>  $ notmuch search tag:work and tag:unread and tag:inbox and not tag:killed | grep 'killed' | wc -l
>  1
>
> I am getting the same result with Trusty shipped notmuch v0.17 and with
> today's build.
>

Search works by matching messages.  So if you have a thread with at
least one message which does not have that tag, that thread will still
show up in a "not tag:killed" search.

The way I maintain killed threads is to search for tag:killed, and then
call notmuch tag -inbox -unread for all those threads.  Here's my code
to do this:

 # killed threads
 for th in $(notmuch search --output=threads -- tag:killed); do
     notmuch tag -inbox -unread -new -- $th
 done

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regards,
kushal

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