[PATCH] Automatically exclude tags in notmuch-show

[Mark Walters]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:18:01 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Oh dear.
> 
> Well, here's one idea.  Instead of doing a single thread query in
> show, do a thread query without the exclusions and then a message
> query with the exclusions.  Output all of the messages from the first
> query, but use the results of the second query to determine which
> messages are "matched".  The same could be accomplished in the library
> somewhat more efficiently, but it's not obvious to me what the API
> would be.

I have been thinking about this and one question is what should the sort
order be? If I understand it correctly notmuch sorts the threads
by the oldest/newest matching message, so the "correct" behaviour if no
message matches is unclear. Perhaps all threads with a matching
non-excluded message sorted by the matching-non-excluded message
followed by all threads that match only on excluded messages with sort
based on the matching excluded message?

Best wishes

Mark