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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] util: Factor out boolean term quoting routine\r
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+Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:\r
+>\r
+> This could live in tag-util as well, but it is really nothing specific\r
+> to tags (although the conventions are specific to Xapian).\r
+>\r
+> Furthermore, this now combines the term prefix with the quoted term;\r
+> arguably this is just as easy to do in the caller, but this will\r
+> nicely parallel the boolean term parsing function to be introduced\r
+> shortly.\r
+\r
+At first glance, I found this a bit too notmuch-specific to go in\r
+util. On second glance, I found my first reaction somewhat\r
+bizarre. Perhaps at some point we should drop a README file in util\r
+explaining what should go there.\r
+\r
+Other than that, LGTM\r
+d\r