Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:41:08 -0500
From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] NEWS: update "Tag exclusion" section
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Quoth Pieter Praet on Jan 23 at  5:22 am:
> ---
>  NEWS |   14 ++++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 2c2d9e9..a0b7929 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -13,10 +13,16 @@ Reply to sender
>  
>  Tag exclusion
>  
> -  Tags can be automatically excluded from search results unless they
> -  appear explicitly in a query.  By default, notmuch excludes the tags
> -  deleted and spam.  This can be changed using the new config setting
> -  search.auto_exclude_tags.
> +  Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
> +  to the new 'search.exclude_tags' option in the Notmuch config file.
> +
> +  This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
> +  tag in your query, for example:
> +
> +    notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
> +
> +  Existing users will probably want to run "notmuch setup" again to add
> +  the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.

Should probably add something about the default for new
configurations.  This also gives existing users an idea of what to set
this to if they want to follow the conventions used by new
configurations.  Maybe just add

In new configurations, this defaults to "deleted" and "spam".

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