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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis'\r
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+Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:\r
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+> Hi,\r
+>\r
+> I have an email with the word 'reanalysis' in the subject line and the\r
+> email body. However, when I try to search for '*analysis' or 'analysis'\r
+> I do not get any matches, should not '*analysis' at least match?\r
+>\r
+\r
+We talked about this on IRC (the short answer is no), but is there some\r
+improvement you could suggest to the "Wildcards" section in\r
+notmuch-search-terms(7) ?\r
+\r
+d\r