notmuch shows tag which is not on any email

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear notmuch developers,
>
> does notmuch remember tags even if at time of query there is no
> message tagged with the respective tag?:
>
> $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph
> EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet
> EA=telegraph at gmx.net
>
>
> $ notmuch count  -- is:EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet
> 0
>
>
> $ notmuch count  -- is:/EA.*telegraph/
> 4498
>
>
> There is no invisible character or some such:
> $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph | head -n 1 | wc -c
> 27

Try all of the above with --exclude=false parameter and see if it makes
a difference. If it does, each of the messages tagged with
EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet is probably also tagged with one of the tags
in 'notmuch config get search.exclude_tags'.

> I might have done something wrong while experimenting with this
> tags and  'EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet' may be a leftover.  I
> would like to remove it but since no message matches it's not
> possible to remove it from messages and therefore the tag remains:
>
> $ notmuch tag +EA=telegraph at gmx.net  -- is:/EA.*telegraph/

Try that with

$ notmuch tag +EA=telegraph at gmx.net -EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet -- is:/EA.*telegraph/

to remedy the situation.

BR,
Jani.

> $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph
> EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet
> EA=telegraph at gmx.net
>
>
> I tried to utilise emacs to remove the tag, but notmuch-emacs
> does not show 'EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet' in notmuch-hello's
> 'All tags' section.
>
>
>
> Why is said tag in the tags listing, how to get rid of it?
>
>
> Thanks, Gregor
>
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