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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: ingo <mail1@2b1.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: remove unused tags from the database / emacs ui?
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, ingo <mail1@2b1.de> wrote:
> I have some tags which were created by afew tests, or just misspelling tags.
> These tags are now unused, but seem to still be in the database, or cached
> in the emacs ui, because I get these tags as possibilities in "add tags"
> list.

Apparently you still have some messages tagged with these tags. You can
get a list of all the tags in all the messages in the database using:

$ notmuch search --output=tags '*'

Or view the "All tags" section in notmuch-hello in Emacs. There you can
also query which messages have these "undesirable" tags.

> Any ideas on how I can get rid of them?

On the command line, if you wanted, for example, "foo" and "bar" tags
removed from all the messages:

$ notmuch tag -foo -bar -- '*'

Alternatively, do a search for all messages in emacs, and hit '*' in the
search view to tag all messages matching the query. List the ones you
want removed.


HTH,
Jani.