[PATCH] NEWS: make it explicit that wildcard matching is no longer supported
authorJani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Fri, 2 May 2014 16:28:38 +0000 (19:28 +0300)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Fri, 7 Nov 2014 18:02:06 +0000 (10:02 -0800)
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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>,\r
+       Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, david@tethera.net\r
+Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: make it explicit that wildcard matching is no longer\r
+       supported\r
+Date: Fri,  2 May 2014 19:28:38 +0300\r
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+Wildcard matching was a feature of the probabilistic prefix, and we no\r
+longer have it for the boolean prefix. Also note that top-level folder\r
+can now be searched.\r
+---\r
+ NEWS | 13 +++++++------\r
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS\r
+index 75dba6f963b0..f10c280be328 100644\r
+--- a/NEWS\r
++++ b/NEWS\r
+@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ General\r
+ The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match\r
\r
+   The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages\r
+-  by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new\r
+-  behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and\r
+-  should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users\r
+-  are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for\r
+-  details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`\r
+-  searches.\r
++  by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard\r
++  matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour\r
++  allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it\r
++  possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should\r
++  lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are\r
++  advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,\r
++  and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.\r
\r
+ There is a new `path:` search prefix.\r
\r
+-- \r
+1.9.2\r
+\r