how to work with entire threads
Vladimir Marek
Vladimir.Marek at Oracle.COM
Tue Jul 9 05:22:00 PDT 2013
Hi,
I would like to create the following process:
1) if I tag any message with the keyword 'kill', it means that I don't
want to see any message from whole thread in my inbox
At the moment I do something like
THREADS=$(notmuch search --output=threads tag:kill)
[ -z "$THREADS" ] || notmuch tag -unread -- '(' $THREADS ')'
2) if there is such a 'killed' thread and it won't receive message for
30 days, I want to remove the kill tag from the thread
That I achieved by something like
N=notmuch
KILL=$( $N search --output=threads tag:kill )
if [ -n "$KILL" ]; then
# Then find threads which contain messages younger than 30 days
KILL_RECENT=$( $N search --output=threads '(' $KILL ')' and date:30days.. )
KILL_RECENT=${KILL_RECENT:-'*'}
# Then find 'kill' threads not matching those recent
KILL_COUNT=$( $N count --output=threads '(' $KILL ')' and not '(' $KILL_RECENT ')' )
if [ $KILL_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Threads to remove 'kill': $KILL"
$N tag -kill -- $( $N search --output=threads '(' $KILL ')' and not '(' $KILL_RECENT ')' )
fi
fi
I was thinking if it could not be simplified. Without knowing anything about
notmuch or xapian internals, it seems that it would be handy to change the
search pattern to return threads. My two previous examples would then read like
1) notmuch tag -unread -- 'threads(tag:kill)'
and
2) notmuch tag -kill -- 'threads(tag:kill)' and not 'threads(date:30days..)'
Given that this would be possible in the first place, wouldn't it be a nice
addition to notmuch?
Thank you
--
Vlad
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