Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)

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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)\r
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+Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:43:02 +0200\r
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+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. Anyway, the reason for this\r
+behaviour is that the path components are indexed as boolean terms, not\r
+unlike tags, just with a different namespace. It's all parsed in Xapian,\r
+not in Notmuch. Adding the / variants would mean indexing twice the\r
+amount of terms.\r
+\r
+This could be fixed with our own query parser (somewhere at the other\r
+end of the rainbow), but for the time being I don't see a reasonable\r
+fix.\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
+None of this should be taken as disagreeing with you, though! ;)\r
+\r
+\r
+BR,\r
+Jani.\r