Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-12-01 Thread Keith Amidon
On 10/18/18 1:37 AM, Jeff Templon wrote: I guess the point for me is that I frequently search for messages (and not threads), and when I do so, it's easy for me to forget that actions taken on the results buffer not only apply to those messages, they can apply to all messages in threads that happ

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-18 Thread Jeff Templon
Hi Carl, Carl Worth writes: > Meanwhile, at the command line this distinction is made very clear. Try > each of these commands, for example: > > notmuch search some-search-pattern > > notmuch search --output threads some-search-pattern > > notmuch search --output messages som

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, Oct 17 2018, Jeff Templon wrote: > Indeed, as long as I am satisfied that all the messages in the view are > OK to delete / tag / whatever ... I usually look at such at view to make > sure that eg. the SPAM filter is doing the right thing. I have not found any case in the notmuch-emacs UI

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread Jeff Templon
Hi, David Bremner writes: > David Edmondson writes: > >> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 13:39:10 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: > >>> Right. Poor example. I guess the better question is, in a screen full >>> of threads matching a particular query, how do I do a mass action on >>> only those messages t

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread David Bremner
David Edmondson writes: > On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 13:39:10 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: >> Right. Poor example. I guess the better question is, in a screen full >> of threads matching a particular query, how do I do a mass action on >> only those messages that match the query and not on the th

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread David Edmondson
On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 13:39:10 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: > Hi, > > David Edmondson writes: > >> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 10:06:18 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: > >>> So how do I make sure that I'm operating on the messages themselves >>> (only one of the 14 messages is marked 'spam') and not t

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread Jeff Templon
Hi, David Edmondson writes: > On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 10:06:18 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: >> So how do I make sure that I'm operating on the messages themselves >> (only one of the 14 messages is marked 'spam') and not the threads? > In this context, does it matter? If you remove 'spam' from

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread David Edmondson
On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 10:06:18 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: > Hi, > > So I do a search like this in notmuch emacs: > > tag:spam > > and what comes up is something like this ... > > 2013-07-27 [1/1] ASN Bank SURF***SPAM***6.8 ASN Bank: > Belangrijke update mededeling (lists lists

Re: tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

2018-10-17 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Jeff, * Jeff Templon [2018-10-17; 10:06]: > and what comes up is something like this ... > > 2013-07-27 [1/1] ASN Bank SURF***SPAM***6.8 ASN Bank: > Belangrijke update mededeling (lists lists/grid spam) > 2013-07-27 [1/1] Overdracht van geld SURF***SPAM***5.7 Uw account is