On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:41:18PM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote: > It's easy to combine works together, but more difficult is to choose best > terminology: database.exclude vs. new.ignore (or something in between or > totally different). Ideas anyone? I would opt for including two mechanisms for ignoring dirs: - explicit mention in the config file (e.g. under new.ignore); - check for presence of a file in the dir (e.g. .notmuchignore), much like mu [1]. The second mechanism is useful in case of a large number of folders to be ignored, as one can simply copy .notmuchignore in all those folders with a for cycle; listing all of them in the config file would be cumbersome - and make the config file itself horribly bloated. Cheers, Fabio [1] http://code.google.com/p/mu0/