From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 11:05:51 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cli: tell how many messages were precisely matched when expected 1 match
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Re: [PATCH] cli: tell how many messages were precisely matched when expected 1 match
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] cli: tell how many messages were precisely matched when
+ expected 1 match
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
+
+> In case of notmuch reply and notmuch show --part=N it is required that
+> search terms match to one message. If match count was != 1, error
+> message "Error: search term did not match precisely one message"
+> was too vague to explain what happened.
+>
+> By appending (matched <num> messages) to the error message it
+> makes the problem more understandable (e.g when <num> is '0'
+> user reckons the query had a typo in it).
+
+pushed,
+
+d