On Apr 2, 2012 11:42 PM, "Jameson Graef Rollins" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 02 2012, David Bremner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jameson Graef Rollins <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 31 2012, Jani Nikula <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Add support for batch tagging operations through stdin to "notmuch > >>> tag". This can be enabled with the new --stdin command line option to > >>> "notmuch new". The input must consist of lines of the format: > >>> > >>> T +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-terms> > >> > > > > I think that's my fault. I was imagining a possible future line-oriented > > notmuch server and having various actions/queries possible. It seems a > > bit blue sky at this point, but it does give extesibility fairly > > cheaply. > > But then why not just make the command explicit, and just have the first > field be "tag"? > > But then I wonder why do we even need any of this at all? Isn't it this > just exactly equivalent to: > > xargs -l notmuch <commands.txt > > ??
Batch tagging brings performance and atomicity by opening and closing the db only once. The hex encoding handles insane message ids and tags. Otherwise there should be no difference. Jani. > > jamie.
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