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23 From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
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24 To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>,
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26 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal
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55 On Sat, Jan 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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57 > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
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58 >> On Sat, Jan 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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59 >>> Perhaps we need to have two prefixes, one of which is the literal
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60 >>> filesystem folder and another which hides the implementation details,
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61 >>> like I mentioned in my mail to Peter [1]. But consider this: my proposed
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62 >>> implementation does cover *all* use cases.
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64 >> I challenge that with my use case: my mails are arranged as follows:
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68 >> For me the current folder: works as I don't have collisions.
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70 > Fair enough, your use case would be *very inconvenient* with the
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71 > proposed changes to the folder: prefix, *regardless* of whether the leaf
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72 > cur/new is indexed and required or not.
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74 > (Very inconvenient, or practically impossible, as you'd have to include
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75 > all those 01..ff directories in your searches.)
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78 Well, I currently run notmuch via a wrapper anyway, I can make it expand
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79 folder:foo to '(' folder:foo/00 or folder:foo/01 or ... folder:foo/ff ')'
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83 >> For me a folder: search which would just work as a prefix i.e. match
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84 >> anything under given directory hierarchy would work best.
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86 > Indeed. Your use case is not an argument in whether cur/new should be
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89 > That "recursive folder prefix" suggestion is, I think, incompatible with
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90 > the requirements for the literal folder: prefix we've been considering.
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92 Yes, I am late in this discussion as I realized that just today. I
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93 don't want to hinder progress there...
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