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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add details about Xapian search syntax\r
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+Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:29:43 +0200\r
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+On Sun, 18 Jan 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+> Questions related to the way that probabilistic prefixes and phrases\r
+> are handled come up quite often and it is nicer to have the documentation self contained. Hopefully putting it in subsections prevents it from being overwhelming.\r
+\r
+I think this is a good idea.\r
+\r
+> ---\r
+> doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r
+> 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)\r
+>\r
+> diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst\r
+> index 1acdaa0..5c65938 100644\r
+> --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst\r
+> +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst\r
+> @@ -129,6 +129,52 @@ operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the\r
+> shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized\r
+> expression).\r
+> \r
+> +Boolean and Probabilistic Prefixes\r
+> +----------------------------------\r
+> +\r
+> +Xapian (and hence notmuch) prefixes are either **boolean**, supporting\r
+> +exact matches like "tag:inbox" or **probabilistic**, supporting a most flexible **term** based searching. The pre\r
+\r
+The pre?\r
+\r
+> +\r
+> ++------------------+-----------------------+\r
+> +|Boolean |Probabilistic |\r
+> ++------------------+-----------------------+\r
+> +| **tag:** **id:** | **from:** **to:** |\r
+> +|**thread:** |**subject:** |\r
+> +|**folder:** |**attachment** |\r
+> +|**path:** | |\r
+> +| | |\r
+> ++------------------+-----------------------+\r
+> +\r
+> +Terms and phrases\r
+> +-----------------\r
+> +\r
+> +In general Xapian distinguishes between lists of terms and\r
+> +**phrases**. Phrases are indicated by double quotes (but beware you\r
+> +probably need to protect those from your shell) and insist that those\r
+> +unstemmed words occur in that order. One useful, but initially\r
+> +surprising feature is that the following are equivalant ways to write\r
+> +the same phrase.\r
+> +\r
+> +- "a list of words"\r
+> +- a-list-of-words\r
+> +- a/list/of/words\r
+> +- a.list.of.words\r
+> +\r
+> +Both parenthesised lists of terms and quoted phrases are ok with\r
+> +probabilisitic prefixes such as **to:**, **from:**, and **subject:**. In particular\r
+> +\r
+> + subject:(pizza free)\r
+> +\r
+> +is equivalent to\r
+> +\r
+> + subject:pizza and subject:free\r
+> +\r
+> +Both of these will match a subject "Free Delicious Pizza" while\r
+> +\r
+> + subject:"pizza free"\r
+> +\r
+> +will not.\r
+> +\r
+\r
+While at it, I think it would be useful to incorporate relevant parts of\r
+http://notmuchmail.org/searching/ into the man page.\r
+\r
+BR,\r
+Jani.\r
+\r
+\r
+> DATE AND TIME SEARCH\r
+> ====================\r
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