tell me how to do this (mass tagging of messages)

[David Edmondson]

On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 13:39:10 +02, Jeff Templon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 10:06:18 +02, Jeff Templon wrote:
>
>>> So how do I make sure that I'm operating on the messages themselves
>>> (only one of the 14 messages is marked 'spam') and not the threads?
>
>> In this context, does it matter? If you remove 'spam' from the entire
>> thread it will affect only that one message, as it's the only one with
>> the tag.
>
> Right.  Poor example.  I guess the better question is, in a screen full
> of threads matching a particular query, how do I do a mass action on
> only those messages that match the query and not on the threads?

There's no easy way to do that now.

Maybe we should make it such that a prefix argument to the tag operation
affects only matching messages in the affected threads?

dme.
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