Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu> writes:

>
> So, I've tried and removed the spam tag from the exclude_tags, and
> suddenly, the search in emacs responds with the 981... which means that
> most of the deleted ones had the spam tag too.
>
>
> So it means that if one explicitely requests an excluded tag, other
> exclude tags still apply. Not sure this is the desirable option : maybe
> if one exclusion is waved, then others should too ?
>
> What do you think ?

I'm not sure. What you suggest sounds sensible enough. On the other hand
the way it behaves now is precisely as documented; I'm not sure whether
this is because of a design choice or ease of implementation. Maybe Mark
can comment further on that.  I guess there are even people who
like/rely on the current functionality, since there always are ;).

d