Negating searches in notmuch running via emacs?
Austin Clements
aclements at csail.mit.edu
Tue Jan 6 18:48:00 PST 2015
Hi David.
In general, "-" will negate a query term. However, Xapian's query
syntax (to which notmuch is beholden) ignores "-" at the beginning of
a query (and immediately after an open paren). Hence, if you want to
negate the first term in a query, you'll have to use "not" instead.
Hope that helps.
Quoth David Creelman on Jan 06 at 8:46 am:
> Hi Carl (et al),
> Thanks for notmuch. It's making my email setup a bit more efficient. I used to be a filter to differnt
> mbox kind of person, but I'm a changed man now !!
>
> Just wondered, is it possible to negate a search in notmuch for emacs?
>
> I have a bunch of stuff that is in my inbox that I don't want to see and have tried doing things like
>
> -googlealerts-noreply
> -from:googlealerts-noreply
>
> But it looks like the '-' is ignored....
>
> Is there a way of getting filtering? It looks like it's possible from the command line application (with -
> and + on search terms).
>
> Regards,
> David
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