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

[Aaron Ecay]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:06:27 +0000, markwalters1009 at gmail.com wrote:
> I would actually like make a different suggestion: extend
> auto_exclude_tags to notmuch-show as well. I was quite surprised to see
> my deleted (ie hidden rather than actually deleted) messages return when
> viewing a thread.

It might be best to show the messages in the thread – after all, you
might want to “undelete” (or “unspam”) those messages in light of later
replies to them.  (And if you are sure you really want them gone, you
should be deleting them or moving them out of your maildir periodically,
rather than relying on notmuch to not show them to you ever.)

(Perhaps another application of this functionality would be to “mute”
certain threads on a mailing list.  Then you could use a query for
“word-i-am-interested-in AND tag:muted” to find out if something
interesting pops up in a muted thread.  Then in the show view, you will
want to unmute the other thread messages.)

Perhaps this could be an application of dme’s header-line collapsing
functionality in id:"cun8vl5m610.fsf at hotblack-desiato.hh.sledj.net"
(suitably cleaned up), such that you see only a single line in the show
buffer that says:
----- 6 messages hidden -----
instead of the 6 (or however many) individual messages.

-- 
Aaron Ecay