RE: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-23 Thread Mark Anderson
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:02:59 -0500, Carl Worth wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:32:27 +0200, Arian Kuschki > wrote: > > So one could query with sysconf and break things up into multiple > > commands as needed. > > > > Doesn't xargs do exactly this? > > Almost. > > The arguments being passed to

RE: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-21 Thread Carl Worth
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:32:27 +0200, Arian Kuschki wrote: > So one could query with sysconf and break things up into multiple > commands as needed. > > Doesn't xargs do exactly this? Almost. The arguments being passed to the "notmuch tag" command in this case look like: notmuch tag -in

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-19 Thread David Edmondson
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:43:19 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > In fact, until we have some sort of daemon that we can feed > arbitrarily-long lists to, that's what we should do. Thinking about loud... What if the sub-commands which accept potentially long argument lists (most of them?) sprouted a '--std

RE: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-17 Thread Arian Kuschki
Hi -Original Message- From: Carl Worth Sent: 17 April 2010 17:43 So one could query with sysconf and break things up into multiple commands as needed. Doesn't xargs do exactly this? ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://n

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-17 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:47:45 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal wrote: > I've never run into this error. I usually run into this with things like "rm * */*" or so. > Is there a specific length that triggers > it? If so, we could chunk the tagging command. Or does the max length > depend on the machine and s

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-16 Thread Servilio Afre Puentes
On 15 April 2010 21:46, Carl Worth wrote: [...] > We'll probably need to arrange for notmuch to accept search > specifications on stdin or so. Or a daemon mode with a pipe or DBus interface. Servilio ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org htt

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-16 Thread Jesse Rosenthal
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:46:56 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:38 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal > wrote: > > the region command only executes one "notmuch tag" command over > > "id:X or id:Y or id:Z or ...". > > ...this operation is all set up to run into "argument list too long" >

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:38 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:59:01 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > We could fix all[*] the bugs of "*" by changing it to simply call the > > new region-based tagging function. The only concern I have with that is > > that it might be significant

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-15 Thread Jesse Rosenthal
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:38 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal wrote: > Not quite true: the region command only executes one "notmuch tag" > command over "id:X or id:Y or id:Z or ...". Sorry -- I meant, of course: over "thread:X or thread:Y or thread:Z or ..." __

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-15 Thread Jesse Rosenthal
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:59:01 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > We could fix all[*] the bugs of "*" by changing it to simply call the > new region-based tagging function. The only concern I have with that is > that it might be significantly slower, (it will execute N "notmuch tag" > commands to tag the N

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-14 Thread Carl Worth
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:56:48 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:51:01 -0600, Mark Anderson > wrote: > > > > I think that '*' is definitely an awesome command, but I wonder if we > > shouldn't have another command for the notmuch-search buffer which means > > 'tag all the thre

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Anderson
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:56:48 -0500, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:51:01 -0600, Mark Anderson > wrote: > > > > I think that '*' is definitely an awesome command, but I wonder if we > > shouldn't have another command for the notmuch-search buffer which means > > 'tag all

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-10 Thread Xavier Maillard
Hi, On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:51:01 -0600, Mark Anderson wrote: > > I think that '*' is definitely an awesome command, but I wonder if we > shouldn't have another command for the notmuch-search buffer which means > 'tag all the threads that I can see in this buffer'. This is exactly what my initial

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Anderson
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 01:15:39 -0500, Xavier Maillard wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:38:03 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal > wrote: > > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:37:53 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to mark a whole bunch of message (restricted > > > in a region, result of a search,

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-04 Thread Jason White
Xavier Maillard wrote: > Sadly, git is not really something I know wll enough to play with > all this stuff :( http://progit.org/book/ ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-04 Thread Xavier Maillard
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:46:40 +1000, Jason White wrote: > Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > You are right I forgot to mention I am using the GNU Emacs > > interface exclusively. > > Then it's the * command from the buffer with the mail threads dislayed. > See also the ?h command for further help. Th

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-04 Thread Xavier Maillard
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:38:03 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:37:53 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > Is there an easy way to mark a whole bunch of message (restricted > > in a region, result of a search, ...) ? > > In addition to the "*" command that was mentioned, there i

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-04 Thread Jesse Rosenthal
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:37:53 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Is there an easy way to mark a whole bunch of message (restricted > in a region, result of a search, ...) ? In addition to the "*" command that was mentioned, there is a patch I wrote to tag messages in search view by region in emacs. Y

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-03 Thread Jason White
Xavier Maillard wrote: > You are right I forgot to mention I am using the GNU Emacs > interface exclusively. Then it's the * command from the buffer with the mail threads dislayed. See also the ?h command for further help. ___ notmuch mailing list no

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-03 Thread Xavier Maillard
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:56:07 +1000, Jason White wrote: > Xavier Maillard wrote: > > Is there an easy way to mark a whole bunch of message (restricted > > in a region, result of a search, ...) ? > > notmuch tag +|- [...] [--] [...] does > this from the shell. If you want to do it from one of the

Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

2010-04-03 Thread Jason White
Xavier Maillard wrote: > Is there an easy way to mark a whole bunch of message (restricted > in a region, result of a search, ...) ? notmuch tag +|- [...] [--] [...] does this from the shell. If you want to do it from one of the user interfaces, it depends on which one you're using. __