Re: [notmuch] Initial tagging

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+On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:02:08 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
+> One distinction is that I have all of my "notmuch tag" commands operate\r
+> globally rather than just on new messages. One of the things that really\r
+> annoyed be about sup was that the support for automatic tagging worked\r
+> as a hook on messages as they were processed. So I couldn't use any of\r
+> the tags for searches prior to the time that I had added a particular\r
+> tag rule. I definitely didn't want to replicate that bug.\r
+\r
+Sometimes I manually override a rule-based tag.  If automatic tagging\r
+operated on old messages, overrides could be superseded.  When I add\r
+automatic tag rules, I first execute them manually and globally from the\r
+command line.\r
+\r
+> To do my "global" searches quickly, I do a similar subsetting, but it's\r
+> much simpler. If I'm adding the "notmuch" tag I do "and not\r
+> tag:notmuch". We've even had the proposal of making "notmuch tag" do\r
+> that automatically.\r
+\r
+That sounds like a good idea.  What happened with that proposal?\r
+\r
+> Meanwhile, I'm planning on eventually moving entirely away from any tags\r
+> that are driven entirely by searches like this. Instead, I'd like to\r
+> just have good support for "saved searches" where we have some syntax to\r
+> perform string expansion on configured search terms. \r
+\r
+Saved searches is a very good idea.  I look forward to it.\r
+\r