On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:10:02 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote: > > > * emacs/notmuch-show.el (notmuch-show-if-found): new function that only shows > > a message/thread if present in the database and otherwise returns an error. > > I like this in principle but it interacts awkwardly with the automatic tag > exclusion. If the id:<message-id> matches a message with an excluded tag > then notmuch-show-if-found will not let you view it, but if you typed the > same search in a search field it would show you the message. > > Note notmuch show currently does not currently respect excluded tags (see > id:"871uqvgrnm.fsf@qmul.ac.uk"), and this is not completely trivial to > fix since it is not clear quite what its behaviour should be in some > corner cases. > > Perhaps we could have an option like "--include-all" to notmuch > search/count to tell it not to apply the exclusions. On the other hand > that might also be useful as something the user can type in a search box > so a special search term (eg include:all) might be better. > Hmm, interesting... Sorry I haven't taken the time to have a look at your patch series yet. (I probably wouldn't have anything useful to contribute anyway...) I'll be taking a stab at fixing this when the exclusion-dust settles. Thanks for pointing it out! > Best wishes > > Mark > > Peace -- Pieter