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

[Jeff Templon]

Hi,

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> 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".

Indeed, as long as I am satisfied that all the messages in the view are
OK to delete / tag / whatever ... I usually look at such at view to make
sure that eg. the SPAM filter is doing the right thing.

My opinion : the best option would be to have some flag / toggle
variable / whatever that would cause a search results screen to display
only matching messages and not the whole thread.

J "am learning to be very careful when hitting keys" T