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+From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>\r
+To: Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: search summary and exclusions\r
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+Hi\r
+On Tue, 29 May 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+> On Mon, 28 May 2012 10:03:35 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:\r
+>> On Mon, May 28 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+>> > Exclusions don't work the way I expected with the search command and\r
+>> > --output=summary. I would like messages with excluded tags to be\r
+>> > treated as if they don't exist at all, but currently:\r
+>> >\r
+>> > * excluded messages are counted towards the "total"\r
+>> > * excluded tags are included in the "tags" set\r
+>> >\r
+>> > Are these deliberate? Especially the second point seems to conflict\r
+>> > with search --output=tags, which doesn't show excluded tags.\r
+>> \r
+>> Hi, Peter. Can you explain more what you mean? I'm not sure what your\r
+>> two bullets have to do with --output=summary. Messages are counted with\r
+>> the count subcommand, and tags are shown with search --output=tags,\r
+>> neither of which have anything to do with --output=summary, and both of\r
+>> which accept the exclude flag:\r
+>> \r
+>> notmuch count --exclude=true '*'\r
+>> notmuch search --output=tags --exclude=true '*'\r
+>> \r
+>> Maybe you can give a clearer explanation of what your issue is.\r
+>> Examples help.\r
+>\r
+> Sure. I keep draft messages in the mail store, and tag them with\r
+> 'draft', and later 'deleted'. I would like the exclusions to treat\r
+> draft and deleted messages as if they didn't exist in the store.\r
+>\r
+> % ./notmuch search --format=json --exclude=true -- thread:0000000000009598 tag:unread\r
+> [{"thread": "0000000000009598",\r
+> "timestamp": 1338231998,\r
+> "date_relative": "Today 05:06",\r
+> "matched": 1,\r
+> "total": 15,\r
+> "authors": "Mark Walters| Peter Wang",\r
+> "subject": "[PATCH v6 3/6] cli: make --entire-thread=false work for format=json.",\r
+> "tags": ["deleted", "draft", "replied", "sent", "unread"]}]\r
+>\r
+> Here is a thread I participated in. From this, my MUA displays "1/15",\r
+> suggesting that there is 1 unread message out of a total of 15. But\r
+> upon opening the thread, there are only 11 messages visible: 4 were\r
+> drafts (possibly deleted) which have been excluded. To the user, it\r
+> looks like some messages went missing.\r
+>\r
+> Therefore I would like search --output=summary --exclude=true\r
+> to report the total number of non-excluded messages. It doesn't need to\r
+> be via the "total" field; a new field would be fine.\r
+\r
+It is easy to add this to the JSON format but adding it to the text\r
+format would probably break things, and I would prefer not to have the\r
+formats diverge.\r
+\r
+Does anyone have any suggestions? Would people happy with a change in the\r
+text summary output?\r
+\r
+Best wishes\r
+\r
+Mark\r