On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> writes: > >> >> For example, would it make sense to have "notmuch new" (and "notmuch >> insert") do "thread-based propagation" of specific tags? for example, >> consider the following (i've just made up the config options): >> >> notmuch config set new.from_self_tags participated >> notmuch config set new.propagate_thread_tags participated >> >> the idea is that "new.from_self_tags" would be applied by "notmuch new" or >> "notmuch insert" if the message was explicitly from: user.primary_email >> or user.other_email. > > At the moment I'm more inclined to work on "doing things right" by > adding xapian documents (database items) for threads. Many of the ideas > in this thread amount to working around their absence. OTOH, it's > certainly true that this last idea (unlike some of the query ideas) > would be relatively straightforward to impliment.
I admit I didn't thoroughly read the entire thread... but I think there's an alternative to adding thread documents, with reasonable design, to address the original problem in this thread. Have a new prefix that evaluates to the threads of the sub-query passed as the prefix value, say thread-of:<query> that you could use as part of the query. (Or, make thread: work on queries as well as thread IDs.) The original query in this thread becomes: thread-of:"from:me" and thread-of:"from:jian" and not thread-of:"from:dave". As a side effect, this also makes thread: queries portable across databases via thread-of:"id:<message-id>". I think this should be doable in current Xapian that supports custom prefix handlers. IIRC the idea was suggested by Austin ages ago. BR, Jani. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
