searching for multiple tags

[David Bremner]

Brian May <brian at linuxpenguins.xyz> writes:

> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>
>> There is a patch floating around [1] to support
>>
>> % notmuch search thread:{tag:important} and thread:{tag:unread}
>>
>> if that's the query you actually want.
>
> I assume this means we search for threads where at least one message is
> important and at least one message is unread.
>
> That actually sounds like a very useful feature to have. I would most
> definitely have uses for it. Is there any chance of this (or something
> like it) being merged into notmuch?

There's certainly some chance. At the moment I'm waiting for more
feedback from people on performance; it works in a kind of brute force
way.

d