Hi, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes: > David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes: > >> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 13:39:10 +02, Jeff Templon wrote: > >>> Right. Poor example. I guess the better question is, in a screen full >>> of threads matching a particular query, how do I do a mass action on >>> only those messages that match the query and not on the threads? >> >> There's no easy way to do that now. >> >> Maybe we should make it such that a prefix argument to the tag operation >> affects only matching messages in the affected threads? > > A workaround could be to use "c q" to copy the query, then use that on > the command line with "notmuch tag". Indeed, as long as I am satisfied that all the messages in the view are OK to delete / tag / whatever ... I usually look at such at view to make sure that eg. the SPAM filter is doing the right thing. My opinion : the best option would be to have some flag / toggle variable / whatever that would cause a search results screen to display only matching messages and not the whole thread. J "am learning to be very careful when hitting keys" T _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch