Re: hint: ignoring threads

Subject: Re: hint: ignoring threads

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:02:25 +0100

To: Sebastian Spaeth, Notmuch developer list

Cc:

From: Xavier Maillard


Hi,

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:47:13 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:
> I like to ignore annoying threads, but notmuch has not easy way to
> achieve it, right? Well, it actually has...

If it has, it is only ugly hack in my point of view. What is missing the
most currently is scoring rules ala GNUS (formerly adaptative scoring).
 
> 1) ok, in notmuch-show I read a message, decide the thread is uninteresting
> (or annoying) and tag that message as "ignore".
> 
> 2) Adding "and not tag:ignore in my saved searches doesn't help as there
> are still messages without tag ignore, so notmuch search will still show
> the threads. So I run this now after notmuch new: TADAA...
> 
> notmuch tag +ignore -- not tag:ignore and `notmuch search
> --output=threads tag:ignore`

Pretty cool !

Cheers

/Xavier

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