On Mon, Apr 02 2012, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes: >> On Sat, Mar 31 2012, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: >>> Add support for batch tagging operations through stdin to "notmuch >>> tag". This can be enabled with the new --stdin command line option to >>> "notmuch new". The input must consist of lines of the format: >>> >>> T +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-terms> >> > > I think that's my fault. I was imagining a possible future line-oriented > notmuch server and having various actions/queries possible. It seems a > bit blue sky at this point, but it does give extesibility fairly > cheaply. But then why not just make the command explicit, and just have the first field be "tag"? But then I wonder why do we even need any of this at all? Isn't it this just exactly equivalent to: xargs -l notmuch <commands.txt ?? jamie.