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44 From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
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46 Subject: Re: [RFC] http://notmuchmail.org/searching/ [was: Re: Improving
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83 On Jo, 15 mar 12, 17:11:08, Austin Clements wrote:
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85 > I think having two divergent documents covering the same thing is less
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86 > than ideal, but perhaps they could be merged in the near future.
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88 I want to have this page more or less complete and descriptive. Once=20
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89 this is done I should be able to rewrite it more like a reference.
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91 Regarding 'notmuch help search-terms':
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93 $ notmuch help search-terms | wc -l
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96 IMHO that text is better suited for a manpage, the help should be just a=20
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97 (very short) reference to refresh ones memory. What do you think?
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101 > The section on "Languages other than English" isn't quite correct.
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102 > Xapian has no idea what language is being used, so it will still stem
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103 > terms in other languages, but using English stemming rules.
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105 Then I think it's safe to assume the results are very much dependent on=20
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106 the language, so if the language has some similarities to English Xapian=20
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107 might do some stemming.
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109 > Notmuch doesn't use synonyms.
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113 > It might be worth pointing out that "+term1" and "term1" are
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118 > "notmuch search -term2" doesn't actually work. I've never looked in
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119 > to why, but I've found that Xapian ignores '-' at the beginning of a
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120 > query or a parenthesized expression.
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122 Not sure what you mean here. Does Xapian just ignore the '-' and=20
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123 searches as if it wasn't specified? I'm usually testing stuff with=20
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124 'notmuch count', but I get:
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126 $ notmuch count -Debian
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127 Unrecognized option: -Debian
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129 With 'search' I get results, but right now I can't think of a query to=20
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132 > "notmuch search term1 -term2" will work.
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134 Does 'notmuch search -term1 term2' work?
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136 > In the brackets section, you'll need shell escaping for those queries
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137 > to work. It might be worth pointing out the need for shell escaping
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138 > at the beginning.
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140 Right, anything other than brackets and '*'?
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142 > XOR, NEAR, and ADJ were intentionally undocumented in
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143 > notmuch-search-terms because they may go away some day and we don't
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144 > want people thinking they can depend on them.
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146 In such case I think it's better to state so.
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148 I'll integrate all your comments (if somebody else doesn't beat me to=20
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154 If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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