X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-tag-1.mdwn;h=e5f198b784ca28a67e10e07edbbecf9c033d6986;hb=887679e40c165171f4f9687932439d1b9fe7d338;hp=cb0df554c33d2ed74c30e8d53a86d7c5826f6070;hpb=3f2dd8baa80b5c6d15318694659eae04cdd77345;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-tag-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-tag-1.mdwn index cb0df55..e5f198b 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-tag-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-tag-1.mdwn @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@

SYNOPSIS

-       notmuch tag +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-term> [...]
+       notmuch tag [options ...] +<tag>|-<tag> [--] <search-term> ...
 
-       notmuch tag --batch [ --input=<filename> ]
+       notmuch tag --batch [--input=<filename>]

DESCRIPTION

@@ -30,22 +30,28 @@ specify a "--" argument to separate the tags from the search terms. notmuch tag updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the - maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option is enabled. See notmuch- - config(1) for details. + maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option is enabled. See not‐ + much-config(1) for details. Supported options for tag include - --batch - - Read batch tagging operations from a file (stdin by default). - This is more efficient than repeated notmuch tag invocations. - See TAG FILE FORMAT below for the input format. This option is - not compatible with specifying tagging on the command line. - - --input=<filename> - - Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies - --batch. + --remove-all + Remove all tags from each message matching the search terms + before applying the tag changes appearing on the command + line. This means setting the tags of each message to the + tags to be added. If there are no tags to be added, the mes‐ + sages will have no tags. + + --batch + Read batch tagging operations from a file (stdin by default). + This is more efficient than repeated notmuch tag invocations. + See TAG FILE FORMAT below for the input format. This option + is not compatible with specifying tagging on the command + line. + + --input=<filename> + Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies + --batch.

TAG FILE FORMAT

@@ -54,49 +60,61 @@ +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <query> - Each line is interpreted similarly to notmuch tag command line argu- + Each line is interpreted similarly to notmuch tag command line argu‐ ments. The delimiter is one or more spaces ' '. Any characters in <tag> - may be hex-encoded with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal value of the - character. To hex-encode a character with a multi-byte UTF-8 encoding, - hex-encode each byte. Any spaces in <tag> must be hex-encoded as %20. + may be hex-encoded with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal value of the + character. To hex-encode a character with a multi-byte UTF-8 encoding, + hex-encode each byte. Any spaces in <tag> must be hex-encoded as %20. Any characters that are not part of <tag> must not be hex-encoded. - In the future tag:"tag with spaces" style quoting may be supported for - <tag> as well; for this reason all double quote characters in <tag> + In the future tag:"tag with spaces" style quoting may be supported for + <tag> as well; for this reason all double quote characters in <tag> should be hex-encoded. - The <query> should be quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: - if a term contains whitespace or a close paren or starts with a double - quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes (not including any prefix) - and double quotes inside the term must be doubled (see below for exam- + The <query> should be quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: + if a term contains whitespace or a close paren or starts with a double + quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes (not including any prefix) + and double quotes inside the term must be doubled (see below for exam‐ ples). - Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines begin- + Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines begin‐ ning with '#' are ignored.

  EXAMPLE

-       The following shows a valid input to batch tagging. Note that only  the
-       isolated  '*'  acts as a wildcard. Also note the two different quotings
+       The  following shows a valid input to batch tagging. Note that only the
+       isolated '*' acts as a wildcard. Also note the two  different  quotings
        of the tag space in tags
-              +winner *
-              +foo::bar%25 -- (One and Two) or (One and tag:winner)
-              +found::it -- tag:foo::bar%
-              # ignore this line and the next
-
-              +space%20in%20tags -- Two
-              # add tag '(tags)', among other stunts.
-              +crazy{ +(tags) +&are +#possible -- tag:"space in tags"
-              +match*crazy -- tag:crazy{
-              +some_tag -- id:"this is ""nauty)"""
+
+          +winner *
+          +foo::bar%25 -- (One and Two) or (One and tag:winner)
+          +found::it -- tag:foo::bar%
+          # ignore this line and the next
+
+          +space%20in%20tags -- Two
+          # add tag '(tags)', among other stunts.
+          +crazy{ +(tags) +&are +#possible\ -- tag:"space in tags"
+          +match*crazy -- tag:crazy{
+          +some_tag -- id:"this is ""nauty)"""

SEE ALSO

-       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1),  not-
-       much-hooks(5),  notmuch-new(1),  notmuch-reply(1),  notmuch-restore(1),
-       notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1),
+       notmuch(1),  notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not‐
+       much-hooks(5),  notmuch-insert(1),  notmuch-new(1),   notmuch-reply(1),
+       notmuch-restore(1),  notmuch-search(1),  notmuch-search-terms(7),  not‐
+       much-show(1),
+
+ +

AUTHOR

+
+       Carl Worth and many others
+
+ +

COPYRIGHT

+
+       2009-2016, Carl Worth and many others
-

Notmuch 0.15.2

+

0.23.4