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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
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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