Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE0B431FB5 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:48:14 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rqrfdWFteKXh for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from defaultvalue.org (defaultvalue.org [70.85.129.156]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86772431FB6 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C054F90D34; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98239500FB; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:11 -0600 (CST) Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 80FF97BB463; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:11 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Browning To: Carl Worth Subject: Re: Folder-based searching References: <87tyh9wzs2.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:11 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87tyh9wzs2.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (Carl Worth's message of "Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800") Message-ID: <87oc7fe590.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:48:14 -0000 Carl Worth writes: > Someone bringing in mail from such a system might want to migrate from > information in directory names to instead be information in notmuch > tags. That might look something like this: > > notmuch tag +important folder:important Nice. So what are the path semantics? For example, is the path case sensitive or insensitive? Can you say folder:foo/bar, and if so, is the path rooted, or can it match path sub-segments? i.e. which of these, if any, is "folder:foo/bar" like? (.*/)?foo/bar(/.*)? ^foo/bar$ ^foo/bar(/.*)? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4