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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis'
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Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have an email with the word 'reanalysis' in the subject line and the
> email body. However, when I try to search for '*analysis' or 'analysis'
> I do not get any matches, should not '*analysis' at least match?
>

We talked about this on IRC (the short answer is no), but is there some
improvement you could suggest to the "Wildcards" section in
notmuch-search-terms(7) ?

d