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

[David Bremner]

David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:

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

>> 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?

A workaround could be to use "c q" to copy the query, then use that on
the command line with "notmuch tag".

d