From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:36:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)
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Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)
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+David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
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+>
+> Could we always prune a trailing slash from the path: component of a
+> query before using it?
+>
+
+As I understand it, this is complicated by the fact that we pass the
+whole string to Xapian to be parsed as a query, so we don't really know
+where the path: terms are. We could in principle preprocess the string
+(more) but that seems to be pretty fragile, and we'd have to minimally
+deal with quoting of e.g. paths with spaces in them.
+
+d