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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [Patch v7 05/14] quote_and_decode_query: new function to quote\r
+ hex-decoded queries\r
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+Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> What happens if a message id (for example) contains a ':'? Is a query of\r
+> the form \r
+>\r
+> id:stuff"encoded_stuff" \r
+>\r
+> acceptable? (As far as I can see from the man page ':' does not need to\r
+> be in hex.)\r
+\r
+The updated version of the notmuch-dump man page does say that : will be\r
+hex encoded, so I think the fix here is to update the notmuch tag man\r
+page.\r