Full-text search in notmuch (like multi-occur)?

Question

Has anyone tried to search through emails' contents in notmuch in a "multi-occur like fashion", that is in a buffer that lists occurrences of a searched keyword and let's you visit their buffers (email messages)?

From my simple tests it looked like notmuch indexes contents of emails, as well as its headers, so I assume that this should be possible?

If anyone is aware of any other project that has this feature (mu4e, neomutt) please let me know.

Answer 1

I've ended up doing it in two discrete steps:

1. open all buffers from the current (tree) search (may take a few seconds):

(defun notmuch-tree-show-all-messages ()
        (interactive)
        (goto-char (point-min))
            (while (and (not (eobp)) (not (get-buffer (notmuch-tree-get-message-id))))
              (notmuch-tree-show-message-out)
              (previous-buffer)
              (forward-line 1)))

2. multi-occur only in the opened notmuch messages:

(defun my-multi-occur-in-notmuch-message-matching-buffers (regexp &optional allbufs)
  "search only in notmuch messages"
  (interactive (occur-read-primary-args))
  (multi-occur-in-matching-buffers "notmuch" regexp (not allbufs)))

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May be worth noting that just for the purpose of full-text email search, I'm testing recoll now instead, which indexes all emails ahead of time.