From: David Edmondson Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:21:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish) X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=495b10e623bd8866e8be970abd61a9aeea4bc6d8;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish) --- diff --git a/33/eb4b606394facb614e847a0c2c036be5e48813 b/33/eb4b606394facb614e847a0c2c036be5e48813 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4a384976e --- /dev/null +++ b/33/eb4b606394facb614e847a0c2c036be5e48813 @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D03431FC7 + for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:21:50 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.699 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.699 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id xkej73nAsuNZ for ; + Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:21:43 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail-wg0-f54.google.com (mail-wg0-f54.google.com + [74.125.82.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client + certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id + 28511431FB6 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:21:43 -0700 + (PDT) +Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id m15so3621547wgh.13 + for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:21:41 -0700 (PDT) +X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; + d=1e100.net; s=20130820; + h=x-gm-message-state:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent + :from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; + bh=hlRJ0RshLYb9Fu5CZsxTeWejmnAceIQqMr4/KNhGiUE=; + b=SGzeh3leTlgGYaOVk1WV/OR0Id0Iu/O+2Jzxc6bwWBdgOmZWnUUrLngcWBK/gVyDpm + z09J9Wz2VOhUAxWKX9/dqERNpkSsfYWM6W7aPrXAokmp7e9b4rSPJuS240sAVaTrVLMA + sm4VTI9+cnWpdOHC8ICmM5WvJS3zEYUaEWuLPKbuvSJ7SnR4oI98LFQv5r4FAKx0OAF5 + 2X1JkgIn9TWtOm0k4MBCS5WknHaM6QAwxMXz8zRE4fPUqsE9LIorTYTUTavvBjpOpjOM + if1kllpRjMwz4/7EJvcl6PhyL4SWgteqdjmBN9bYRZTH0ZzNPOsNGQwckYs5OnTUvqx+ + fDWQ== +X-Gm-Message-State: + ALoCoQm8Xt9dWo0pIz4D7ohDXBpadO1nsGXroiCTtlrXdaRyNQjnefbukogdL8G4e/NvhciSLghL +X-Received: by 10.194.173.10 with SMTP id bg10mr18559161wjc.16.1414657301763; + Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:21:41 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from disaster-area.hh.sledj.net + ([2a01:348:1a2:1:ea39:35ff:fe2c:a227]) + by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id + fa16sm21360325wid.5.2014.10.30.01.21.40 for + (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); + Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:21:41 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from localhost (30000@localhost [local]); + by localhost (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 538fe3a3; + Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:21:39 +0000 (UTC) +To: Jani Nikula , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish) +In-Reply-To: <874mum1x2x.fsf@nikula.org> +References: + <874mum1x2x.fsf@nikula.org> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) +From: David Edmondson +Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:21:39 +0000 +Message-ID: +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:21:50 -0000 + +On Wed, Oct 29 2014, Jani Nikula wrote: +> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, David Edmondson wrote: +>> Adding a terminal slash to a directory name when using --path causes the +>> search to fail. Removing the terminal slash produces results. +> +> I think you mean path:, not --path. + +Yes, sorry. + +> Anyway, the reason for this behaviour is that the path components are +> indexed as boolean terms, not unlike tags, just with a different +> namespace. It's all parsed in Xapian, not in Notmuch. Adding the / +> variants would mean indexing twice the amount of terms. + +Could we always prune a trailing slash from the path: component of a +query before using it? + +>> Given that many shells will add the terminal slash during completion, +>> this is lame(-ish). +> +> Given that path: expects a relative path from the maildir root, not just +> any path, and the notmuch bash completion script (if you happen to use +> bash) does exactly this, without adding the slash, I'm not too worried. + +I'm almost always doing this in Emacs shell-mode, manipulating the +pathnames on the fly. This means that I can adapt, of course.