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28 From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
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29 To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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30 Subject: Re: Folder-based searching
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56 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
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58 > This works in a similar way to 'subject:"some phrase"', (though more
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59 > people seem to be asking about these details for folder: than have ever
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60 > asked for subject:).
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62 I'm not surprised. Imagine:
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67 If I understand correctly, right now you'd have to say
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69 folder:misc and not folder:debian/misc
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71 which is not nearly as handy as
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75 and at first, a lot of people may not even realize that they need the
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78 I'd be tempted to consider making folder: searches rooted by default. I
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79 wonder how often people really want "all folders named misc"?
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81 > That will require a little care to get some additional terms indexed to
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82 > support the rooting, then the in-development custom query parser to
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83 > allow mapping symbols like '^' and '$' to these new symbols.
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90 rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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91 GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
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