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+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)\r
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+From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>\r
+Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:21:39 +0000\r
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+On Wed, Oct 29 2014, Jani Nikula wrote:\r
+> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:\r
+>> Adding a terminal slash to a directory name when using --path causes the\r
+>> search to fail. Removing the terminal slash produces results.\r
+>\r
+> I think you mean path:, not --path.\r
+\r
+Yes, sorry.\r
+\r
+> Anyway, the reason for this behaviour is that the path components are\r
+> indexed as boolean terms, not unlike tags, just with a different\r
+> namespace. It's all parsed in Xapian, not in Notmuch. Adding the /\r
+> variants would mean indexing twice the amount of terms.\r
+\r
+Could we always prune a trailing slash from the path: component of a\r
+query before using it?\r
+\r
+>> Given that many shells will add the terminal slash during completion,\r
+>> this is lame(-ish).\r
+>\r
+> Given that path: expects a relative path from the maildir root, not just\r
+> any path, and the notmuch bash completion script (if you happen to use\r
+> bash) does exactly this, without adding the slash, I'm not too worried.\r
+\r
+I'm almost always doing this in Emacs shell-mode, manipulating the\r
+pathnames on the fly. This means that I can adapt, of course.\r