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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: segfault if notmuch-show query has spurious .. (w/ v0.17)\r
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+Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu> writes:\r
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+> Probably because I kept using notmuch-emacs .elc code from 0.16 after\r
+> notmuch got upgraded to 0.17 (I rarely restart emacs), my Emacs\r
+> interface to notmuch started generating queries that caused Xapian\r
+> exceptions and segfaults. Here's one:\r
+>\r
+> $ notmuch show '( FW: Student Employment Orie.. )'\r
+> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation\r
+> Query string was: ( FW: Student Employment Orie.. )\r
+> Segmentation fault\r
+\r
+this should be fixed in git master (and in the next release of notmuch).\r
+\r
+d\r