Wael Nasreddine <wael.nasreddine at 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
--
regards,
kushal
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