Hi On Tue, 29 May 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2012 10:03:35 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: >> On Mon, May 28 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Exclusions don't work the way I expected with the search command and >> > --output=summary. I would like messages with excluded tags to be >> > treated as if they don't exist at all, but currently: >> > >> > * excluded messages are counted towards the "total" >> > * excluded tags are included in the "tags" set >> > >> > Are these deliberate? Especially the second point seems to conflict >> > with search --output=tags, which doesn't show excluded tags. >> >> Hi, Peter. Can you explain more what you mean? I'm not sure what your >> two bullets have to do with --output=summary. Messages are counted with >> the count subcommand, and tags are shown with search --output=tags, >> neither of which have anything to do with --output=summary, and both of >> which accept the exclude flag: >> >> notmuch count --exclude=true '*' >> notmuch search --output=tags --exclude=true '*' >> >> Maybe you can give a clearer explanation of what your issue is. >> Examples help. > > Sure. I keep draft messages in the mail store, and tag them with > 'draft', and later 'deleted'. I would like the exclusions to treat > draft and deleted messages as if they didn't exist in the store. > > % ./notmuch search --format=json --exclude=true -- thread:0000000000009598 tag:unread > [{"thread": "0000000000009598", > "timestamp": 1338231998, > "date_relative": "Today 05:06", > "matched": 1, > "total": 15, > "authors": "Mark Walters| Peter Wang", > "subject": "[PATCH v6 3/6] cli: make --entire-thread=false work for format=json.", > "tags": ["deleted", "draft", "replied", "sent", "unread"]}] > > Here is a thread I participated in. From this, my MUA displays "1/15", > suggesting that there is 1 unread message out of a total of 15. But > upon opening the thread, there are only 11 messages visible: 4 were > drafts (possibly deleted) which have been excluded. To the user, it > looks like some messages went missing. > > Therefore I would like search --output=summary --exclude=true > to report the total number of non-excluded messages. It doesn't need to > be via the "total" field; a new field would be fine. It is easy to add this to the JSON format but adding it to the text format would probably break things, and I would prefer not to have the formats diverge. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would people happy with a change in the text summary output? Best wishes Mark