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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Have notmuch count default to showing the total.
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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:19:47 -0700, Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org> wr=
ote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:01:35 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth=
.de> wrote:

> > 1) I often want to know how many mails are in my db. "notmuch count" or
> > "notmuch count *" is the intuitive syntax I would use for that. Right
> > now there is no way as far as I can see.
>=20
> I use "notmuch count To" - not very intuitive, though.

Unfortunately, this doesn't give the desired result.

Think Shakespearean and you can get an accurate count though:

      notmuch count to be or not to be

=2DCarl

OK, we need a simpler search syntax than that...

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