Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

Subject: Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:47:45 -0400

To: Carl Worth, Xavier Maillard, Mark Anderson, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jesse Rosenthal

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:46:56 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:38 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> > the region command only executes one "notmuch tag" command over
> > "id:X or id:Y or id:Z or ...".
>
> ...this operation is all set up to run into "argument list too long"
> errors.

I've never run into this error. Is there a specific length that triggers
it? If so, we could chunk the tagging command. Or does the max length
depend on the machine and system?

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