[PATCH v3 2/2] search: Support automatic tag exclusions

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Pieter Praet on Jan 19 at  8:19 pm:
> Nice feature!  I won't be using it myself, but I can imagine it being
> *very* useful for those who still feel the need to "delete" email :).

Same here.  I probably will use the spam tag, though.

> Nitpicking:
> 
> - All other config-related functions and args include the section title
>   in their name [1], so for the sake of consistency, we might want to
>   mirror that.  Also, the "auto"matic part is pretty much a given.
> 
>   So I'd like to suggest replacing all occurences of "auto_exclude_tags"
>   with "search_exclude_tags" (and simply "exclude_tags" in the args to
>   `_config_get_list' and `_config_set_list', of course).

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.  I'd completely
missed this pattern.  This should get fixed ASAP, while this feature
still has limited adoption.

>   Unfortunately, this would also partially invalidate your recent NEWS
>   submission [2].

No worries, though maybe you want to tack an updated version of that
patch on the end of your series?

> - If the 'search.exclude_tags' option is missing from the config file,
>   its value is automatically set to "deleted;spam;", which probably isn't
>   a sane default.  Luckily, you've already provided the solution [3].

I'm good either way.  I got lost in the discussion of defaults but
Jamie assured me everything was okay, so I took the path of least
resistance and left things as they were.

> - To make new users aware of the config option's existence, we should
>   prompt them to configure it during setup.

Sure.

> Patches follow.
> 
> 
> Peace
> 
> 
> [1] Eg. `notmuch_config_get_user_name', `notmuch_config_get_new_tags',
>         `notmuch_config_get_maildir_synchronize_flags', ...
> 
> [2] id:"1326920330-31496-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu"
> 
> [3] id:"20120117203211.GQ16740 at mit.edu"
>