search summary and exclusions

[Mark Walters]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012 08:49:31 +0100, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Maybe there is room for another keyword under --exclude?
>> 
>> Yes that might be the best way to go. Something like --exclude=all and
>> then excluded messages never appear anywhere?
>> 
>> I think it should be easy: I will try to send a patch tonight.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Did you get a chance to try this?  Otherwise I can have a look.

Hi sorry I did try this but got distracted. Doing it neatly turned out
to be a bit bigger than I expected. I will post what I had as a reply to
this message, but I don't think I will be able to work on it any time
soon so feel free to take it over.

I think it all works but I have not tested it very much.

Best wishes

Mark