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

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+Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)\r
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+David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:\r
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+> Could we always prune a trailing slash from the path: component of a\r
+> query before using it?\r
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+As I understand it, this is complicated by the fact that we pass the\r
+whole string to Xapian to be parsed as a query, so we don't really know\r
+where the path: terms are. We could in principle preprocess the string\r
+(more) but that seems to be pretty fragile, and we'd have to minimally\r
+deal with quoting of e.g. paths with spaces in them.\r
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+d\r