From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
To: Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:07:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch.el: add functionality to add or
 remove tags by region.
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:59 -0500, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> Notmuch is not to my knowledge capable of tagging a sub-region of a
> message, so in that sense it might not work.  

This is only in notmuch-search mode, so it only operates on full
threads.

> Would it be better to use some sort of tag/apply system ala mutt
> instead?

That could work too. The main reason I implemented this is that, as an
emacs user, I kept intuitively trying to tag messages in this way, and
it wouldn't work.

I actually was thinking of combining regions and marking (let's call it
that to keep from getting confused with notmuch tags) -- i.e., have
region selection in search mode also mark messages. And then there could
also be a message-by-message way if you wanted to mark disjoint
messages.

Best,
Jesse