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30 From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
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31 To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>,
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32 Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
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33 Subject: Re: Partial words on notmuch search?
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60 On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:34:31 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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61 > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm:
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62 > > This is also interesting:
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63 > > $ notmuch count 'debian'
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65 > > $ notmuch count 'dEbian'
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67 > > $ notmuch count 'Debian'
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70 > The first two will match stemmed versions of "debian" such as
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71 > "debian's" and "debianed". However, starting a term with a capital
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72 > letter suppresses stemming (because it suggests that it's a name,
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73 > which you wouldn't want to modify), so your last query matches only
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74 > the term "debian". This is probably documented somewhere, though I
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77 Interesting. Is this done when adding the terms to the database, or when
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78 searching? I presume the latter. How much control does notmuch have over
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81 The assumption that one wouldn't want to have stemming for names is very
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82 much language dependent. [1]
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88 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_noun_cases (the same works for
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89 names as well as nouns)
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