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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: notmuch_query_add_tag_excluded and notmuch_query_search_threads\r
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+Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:\r
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+> I also did an notmuch_query_count_threads (query) as illustrated\r
+> above, this returns 0 and also results in the erroneous behavior\r
+> below. Your code works as expected without the _count_threads() call.\r
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+I think there's a documentation error; notmuch_query_count_threads is\r
+destructive. As to why your's returns 0 that's still a mystery to me. I\r
+get 84, which matches the output from "notmuch search".\r