Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:52 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote: >> The decision, if I remember correctly, was that regions are so intuitive >> for emacs users, and many people reported trying to tag by region >> without thinking about it, that this approach would make sense for the >> emacs interface. In other words, keep the emacs interface emacsy. I >> think I still agree with that, since I feel like having both would be >> confusing (what do you do when you select a marked-line in a region?) >> and I like the one I tend toward intuitively. But I certainly see the >> benefit of the other functionality as well. > > I should mention that in my experience it's usually not that hard to > construct searches (or filters on searches) that pair down to just the > messages you want to tag, in which case you can just tag the entire > buffer. I guess so. I still haven't really switched to notmuch for real mail so I have little experience. I don't quite remember why I would have found it handy when I wrote it, but it was while I was busy experimenting with tagging my existing archive.