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Subject: Re: Add support for specifying tags during "notmuch new"
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Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:


> I'm not sure if it's a bad idea or not, but it's materially different
> from the tags in the config.  The tags in the config persist and any
> call to notmuch new from any source (cron, 'G' in Emacs, etc.) will
> pick them up.  Tags specified on the command line don't persist in
> this way.

Well sure, but nothing prevents a motivated user from editing the config
file to have transient settings for the values. I see these patches as
replacing such a hack.

d