Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging

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+From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>\r
+To: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>, 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 16:04:38 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wr=\r
+ote:\r
+> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:59:01 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
+> > We could fix all[*] the bugs of "*" by changing it to simply call the\r
+> > new region-based tagging function. The only concern I have with that is\r
+> > that it might be significantly slower, (it will execute N "notmuch tag"\r
+> > commands to tag the N threads in the current buffer, rather than just\r
+> > one "notmuch tag" command with the same search).\r
+>=20\r
+> Not quite true: the region command only executes one "notmuch tag"\r
+> command over "id:X or id:Y or id:Z or ...".=20\r
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+Oh, I see. Sorry for my misunderstanding.\r
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+So that is more efficient in that regard.\r
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+But it also does mean that this operation is all set up to run into\r
+"argument list too long" errors.\r
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+We'll probably need to arrange for notmuch to accept search\r
+specifications on stdin or so.\r
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