Re: Negating searches in notmuch running via emacs?

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+Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:48:00 -0500\r
+From: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+To: David Creelman <creelman.david@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: Negating searches in notmuch running via emacs?\r
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+Hi David.\r
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+In general, "-" will negate a query term.  However, Xapian's query\r
+syntax (to which notmuch is beholden) ignores "-" at the beginning of\r
+a query (and immediately after an open paren).  Hence, if you want to\r
+negate the first term in a query, you'll have to use "not" instead.\r
+\r
+Hope that helps.\r
+\r
+Quoth David Creelman on Jan 06 at  8:46 am:\r
+> Hi Carl (et al),\r
+> Thanks for notmuch. It's making my email setup a bit more efficient. I used to be a filter to differnt\r
+> mbox kind of person, but I'm a changed man now !!\r
+> \r
+> Just wondered, is it possible to negate a search in notmuch for emacs?\r
+> \r
+> I have a bunch of stuff that is in my inbox that I don't want to see and have tried doing things like\r
+> \r
+>      -googlealerts-noreply\r
+>      -from:googlealerts-noreply\r
+> \r
+> But it looks like the '-' is ignored....\r
+> \r
+> Is there a way of getting filtering? It looks like it's possible from the command line application (with -\r
+> and + on search terms).\r
+> \r
+> Regards,\r
+> David\r
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