On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> wrote: > Dear notmuch developers, > > does notmuch remember tags even if at time of query there is no > message tagged with the respective tag?: > > $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph > EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet > EA=telegraph@gmx.net > > > $ notmuch count -- is:EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet > 0 > > > $ notmuch count -- is:/EA.*telegraph/ > 4498 > > > There is no invisible character or some such: > $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph | head -n 1 | wc -c > 27 Try all of the above with --exclude=false parameter and see if it makes a difference. If it does, each of the messages tagged with EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet is probably also tagged with one of the tags in 'notmuch config get search.exclude_tags'. > I might have done something wrong while experimenting with this > tags and 'EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet' may be a leftover. I > would like to remove it but since no message matches it's not > possible to remove it from messages and therefore the tag remains: > > $ notmuch tag +EA=telegraph@gmx.net -- is:/EA.*telegraph/ Try that with $ notmuch tag +EA=telegraph@gmx.net -EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet -- is:/EA.*telegraph/ to remedy the situation. BR, Jani. > $ notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep telegraph > EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet > EA=telegraph@gmx.net > > > I tried to utilise emacs to remove the tag, but notmuch-emacs > does not show 'EA%3Dtelegraph%40gmx%2Enet' in notmuch-hello's > 'All tags' section. > > > > Why is said tag in the tags listing, how to get rid of it? > > > Thanks, Gregor > > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch