Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

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+From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>\r
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>,\r
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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging\r
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+On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:46:56 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
+> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:38 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:\r
+> > the region command only executes one "notmuch tag" command over\r
+> > "id:X or id:Y or id:Z or ...".\r
+>\r
+> ...this operation is all set up to run into "argument list too long"\r
+> errors.\r
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+I've never run into this error. Is there a specific length that triggers\r
+it? If so, we could chunk the tagging command. Or does the max length\r
+depend on the machine and system?\r
+\r