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Diffstat (limited to 'emacs/notmuch-tag.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | emacs/notmuch-tag.el | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-tag.el b/emacs/notmuch-tag.el index f705ac5d..b60f46c7 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-tag.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-tag.el @@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ from TAGS if present." (error "Changed tag must be of the form `+this_tag' or `-that_tag'"))))) (sort result-tags 'string<))) +(defconst notmuch-tag-argument-limit 1000 + "Use batch tagging if the tagging query is longer than this. + +This limits the length of arguments passed to the notmuch CLI to +avoid system argument length limits and performance problems.") + (defun notmuch-tag (query tag-changes) "Add/remove tags in TAG-CHANGES to messages matching QUERY. @@ -279,8 +285,13 @@ notmuch-after-tag-hook will be run." tag-changes) (unless (null tag-changes) (run-hooks 'notmuch-before-tag-hook) - (apply 'notmuch-call-notmuch-process "tag" - (append tag-changes (list "--" query))) + (if (<= (length query) notmuch-tag-argument-limit) + (apply 'notmuch-call-notmuch-process "tag" + (append tag-changes (list "--" query))) + ;; Use batch tag mode to avoid argument length limitations + (let ((batch-op (concat (mapconcat #'notmuch-hex-encode tag-changes " ") + " -- " query))) + (notmuch-call-notmuch-process :stdin-string batch-op "tag" "--batch"))) (run-hooks 'notmuch-after-tag-hook))) (defun notmuch-tag-change-list (tags &optional reverse) |