can a notmuch query filter the output based on the size of a thread?

[David Bremner]

Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at caltech.edu> writes:

> I have never personally had the need to search based on numbers of
> messages, but I have definitely thought that it would be good if
> searches worked over entire threads instead of just messages.  I would
> much prefer if a search for "foo AND bar" would turn up a thread where
> "foo" was mentioned in one message in the thread and "bar" was mentioned
> in another.  I think that would be very useful.

You can use thread:{foo AND bar} for that (with appropriate quoting).

There is a noticable performance penalty.

d