The pipe message function (when used with a prefix) uses a search of the form "id:<id1> or id:<id2>" etc. Since the user says precisely which messages are wanted by opening them it should not use excludes. --- This is a small bugfix. Note that emacs how mode includes excluded messages in its buffer but, by default, it displays them closed. emacs/notmuch-show.el | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el index 6335d45..dcfc190 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el @@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ than only the current message." (let (shell-command) (if entire-thread (setq shell-command - (concat notmuch-command " show --format=mbox " + (concat notmuch-command " show --format=mbox --exclude=false " (shell-quote-argument (mapconcat 'identity (notmuch-show-get-message-ids-for-open-messages) " OR ")) " | " command)) -- 1.7.9.1