X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2Fnotmuch.h;h=673c4237ca4f98ba18183cf2c62ee4f0cd785f0d;hb=d6fbef4690968c8d0b8e9dc19a903e693cace316;hp=7929fe7222ea0bc92d0842a2444d92373a0fc4c9;hpb=d43f6c00b351424e903c2f2b71c34bc5902b467e;p=notmuch

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 7929fe72..673c4237 100644
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -449,6 +449,26 @@ typedef enum {
 const char *
 notmuch_query_get_query_string (notmuch_query_t *query);
 
+/* Specify whether to omit excluded results or simply flag them.  By
+ * default, this is set to TRUE.
+ *
+ * If this is TRUE, notmuch_query_search_messages will omit excluded
+ * messages from the results.  notmuch_query_search_threads will omit
+ * threads that match only in excluded messages, but will include all
+ * messages in threads that match in at least one non-excluded
+ * message.
+ *
+ * The performance difference when calling
+ * notmuch_query_search_messages should be relatively small (and both
+ * should be very fast).  However, in some cases,
+ * notmuch_query_search_threads is very much faster when omitting
+ * excluded messages as it does not need to construct the threads that
+ * only match in excluded messages.
+ */
+
+void
+notmuch_query_set_omit_excluded (notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_bool_t omit_excluded);
+
 /* Specify the sorting desired for this query. */
 void
 notmuch_query_set_sort (notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_sort_t sort);
@@ -665,8 +685,10 @@ notmuch_thread_get_toplevel_messages (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
 /* Get the number of messages in 'thread' that matched the search.
  *
  * This count includes only the messages in this thread that were
- * matched by the search from which the thread was created. Contrast
- * with notmuch_thread_get_total_messages() .
+ * matched by the search from which the thread was created and were
+ * not excluded by any exclude tags passed in with the query (see
+ * notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude). Contrast with
+ * notmuch_thread_get_total_messages() .
  */
 int
 notmuch_thread_get_matched_messages (notmuch_thread_t *thread);
@@ -895,7 +917,8 @@ notmuch_message_get_filenames (notmuch_message_t *message);
 
 /* Message flags */
 typedef enum _notmuch_message_flag {
-    NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_FLAG_MATCH
+    NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_FLAG_MATCH,
+    NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_FLAG_EXCLUDED
 } notmuch_message_flag_t;
 
 /* Get a value of a flag for the email corresponding to 'message'. */