Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

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+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>,\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal\r
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+On Sat, Jan 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
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+> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:\r
+>> On Sat, Jan 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
+>>> Perhaps we need to have two prefixes, one of which is the literal\r
+>>> filesystem folder and another which hides the implementation details,\r
+>>> like I mentioned in my mail to Peter [1]. But consider this: my proposed\r
+>>> implementation does cover *all* use cases.\r
+>>\r
+>> I challenge that with my use case: my mails are arranged as follows: \r
+>\r
+> [snip]\r
+>\r
+>> For me the current folder: works as I don't have collisions.\r
+>\r
+> Fair enough, your use case would be *very inconvenient* with the\r
+> proposed changes to the folder: prefix, *regardless* of whether the leaf\r
+> cur/new is indexed and required or not.\r
+>\r
+> (Very inconvenient, or practically impossible, as you'd have to include\r
+> all those 01..ff directories in your searches.)\r
+\r
+\r
+Well, I currently run notmuch via a wrapper anyway, I can make it expand\r
+folder:foo to '(' folder:foo/00 or folder:foo/01 or ... folder:foo/ff ')'\r
+;)\r
+\r
+\r
+>> For me a folder: search which would just work as a prefix i.e. match\r
+>> anything under given directory hierarchy would work best.\r
+>\r
+> Indeed. Your use case is not an argument in whether cur/new should be\r
+> included or not.\r
+>\r
+> That "recursive folder prefix" suggestion is, I think, incompatible with\r
+> the requirements for the literal folder: prefix we've been considering.\r
+\r
+Yes, I am late in this discussion as I realized that just today. I\r
+don't want to hinder progress there...\r
+\r
+>\r
+> BR,\r
+> Jani.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r