News for release 0.38.3

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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
 # Message exclusion and deletion
 
 An important principle of notmuch is that it does not modify your mail
@@ -8,14 +9,14 @@ notmuch does not support, nor ever will, the deleting of messages,
 notmuch has a couple of nice features that allow users to handle
 excluding unwanted messages in a sensible way.
 
-## <span id="exclude>**message exclusion**</span>
+## <span id="exclude">**message exclusion**</span>
 
 Notmuch has the ability to exclude message with certain tags from
 search results.  A common usage is to exclude "deleted" or "spam"
 messages so that they don't clutter your search results.  To enable
 excludes, use the config utility:
 
-       $ notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
+        $ notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
 
 This will cause messages with the "deleted" or "spam" tags to be
 excluded from search results.
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ excluded from search results.
 It is still possible to find messages with excluded tags, though, by
 manually including the excluded tag in your search:
 
-       $ notmuch search from:foo and tag:spam
+        $ notmuch search from:foo and tag:spam
 
 This will find messages from "foo" with the tag "spam", even though
 "spam" is an excluded tag.
@@ -33,9 +34,9 @@ This will find messages from "foo" with the tag "spam", even though
 Notmuch makes it very easy to access the underlying mail files
 associated with specific search terms using the "file" output format
 of notmuch search.  To find all message files associated with the tag
-"foo" rung:
+"foo" run:
 
-       $ notmuch search --output=files tag:foo
+        $ notmuch search --output=files tag:foo
 
 This will output the paths to all message files with "tag:foo", one
 per line.
@@ -43,35 +44,38 @@ per line.
 This is useful in a number of different ways.  For instance, it could
 be used to train a spam filter:
 
-       $ notmuch search --output=files tag:spam | sa-learn -f -
+        $ notmuch search --output=files tag:spam | sa-learn -f -
 
 It can also be used to purge mail files from disk:
 
-       $ notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -l rm
+        $ notmuch search --format=text0 --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
 
 Make sure you run "notmuch new" after the last command so the database
 becomes aware that the files have been removed and can remove the
 corresponding entries from the index.
 
-## <span id="recipe>**putting it all together**</span>
+## <span id="recipe">**putting it all together**</span>
 
 So if you want to add message deletion to your work flow, here's a
 procedure:
 
 * Add exclusion for messages with the "deleted" tag:
 
-       $ notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted
+        $ notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted
 
-* Add a key binding to your favorite ui to add a "deleted" tag to
-  messages that you want to delete.  In [[emacs|emacstips]] that might
-  be:
-
-       (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
-         (lambda ()
-               (interactive)
-               (notmuch-show-tag "+deleted")))
+* In emacs MUA use keybinding `k d` to add a "deleted" tag to messages
+  that you want to delete.
 
 * And, finally, if you _really_ want the messages purged from disk,
   you can delete them manually with:
 
-       $ notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -l rm
+       $ notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -l rm
+
+## <span id="exclude">**killing threads**</span>
+
+In a [hook](https://notmuchmail.org/doc/latest/man5/notmuch-hooks.html)
+
+    notmuch tag +muted $(notmuch search --output=threads tag:muted)
+
+New messages in the thread get the muted tag.  Make muted an excluded tag (see
+above).  To kill a thread, tag it with muted, run notmuch new.