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+From: Sebastian Fischmeister <sfischme@uwaterloo.ca>\r
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+Subject: Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis'\r
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+>> It is not possible to use wildcards at the beginning of a term.\r
+>\r
+> after the current explanation to emphasize this limitation (possibly\r
+> blaming Xapian to avoid futile requests).\r
+>\r
+> I think it is something many would expect (and want). The current\r
+> description feels more like an example, and it is easy to make the\r
+> assumption that it works for prefixing the terms as well - although,\r
+> technically, nothing is promised in the original docs.\r
+\r
+I ran into this problem before as well. Storage is cheap. Notmuch could\r
+index all emails with reversed text to get around some of this\r
+problem. It doesn't solve the problem of *analysis*, but it's still an\r
+improvement.\r
+\r
+ Sebastian\r