From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>, mueen@nawaz.org, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Header and other questions
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Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 18:16:31 -0400
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On Sun, 15 May 2011 23:56:11 +0200, Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:23:16 -0700, mueen@nawaz.org wrote:
> 
> > 3. Can I mark a bunch of messages for tagging in the Emacs interface? I
> > know I can tag all messages in a query, but sometimes I'd just like to
> > select a few manually and tag them (or apply some other command to
> > them).
> 
> I do not think that's possible at the moment but that could be quite
> useful.

It's possible, and works the way you'd think it would -- just select a
bunch of threads in the search list, and then tag them. It will apply
the tag to the messages in the region. (In fact, tagging a single thread
is just a special case of this, with a one-line region.)

--Jesse