Quoth Mark Walters on Jan 19 at 8:23 pm: > > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:06:27 +0000, markwalters1009@gmail.com wrote: > > > I would actually like make a different suggestion: extend > > > auto_exclude_tags to notmuch-show as well. I was quite surprised to see > > > my deleted (ie hidden rather than actually deleted) messages return when > > > viewing a thread. > > > > It might be best to show the messages in the thread – after all, you > > might want to “undelete” (or “unspam”) those messages in light of later > > replies to them. (And if you are sure you really want them gone, you > > should be deleting them or moving them out of your maildir periodically, > > rather than relying on notmuch to not show them to you ever.) > > I am happy with them appearing as a non matching message, but currently > they appear as a full open message. (The patch to achieve this is > trivial: essentially transpose part of Austin's patch of > notmuch-search.c into notmuch-show.c) This definitely sounds like the right thing to do. We can argue about more sophisticated UIs, but it should do this at a minimum.