Re: Improving notmuch query documentation [was: Re: Partial words on notmuch search?]
authorAustin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:15:36 +0000 (17:15 +2000)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Fri, 7 Nov 2014 17:45:32 +0000 (09:45 -0800)
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+Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:36 -0400\r
+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Mark Anderson <MarkR.Anderson@amd.com>\r
+Subject: Re: Improving notmuch query documentation [was: Re: Partial words on\r
+       notmuch search?]\r
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+       Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>\r
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+Quoth Mark Anderson on Jan 20 at 12:08 pm:\r
+> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:29:23 -0600, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+> > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 18 at 12:14 am:\r
+> > > On Lu, 16 ian 12, 21:34:31, Austin Clements wrote:\r
+> > > > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm:\r
+> > > > > Where can I read more about this? (except the source :)\r
+> > > > \r
+> > > > Most of this is in the Xapian query syntax document you found.  Really\r
+> > > > we ought to beef-up Notmuch's query syntax documentation.\r
+> > > \r
+> > > If I get around to write something myself where do you suggest I should \r
+> > > start, the wiki or the manpage?\r
+> > \r
+> > Probably expanding man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7 would be the way to\r
+> > go.\r
+> \r
+> I would appreciate it if the limitations of id: search were explained\r
+> there too.  I have some rules that I would love to make based on pattern\r
+> matching the message-id of the message, because I have a tool that\r
+> generates scads of email and I want to be able to delete a lot of it.\r
+> \r
+> I think that id: is only matchable as an entire string, and a\r
+> confirmation of that would be nice to see.\r
+\r
+This is true.  thread:, id:, tag:, and is: are "boolean prefixes",\r
+which means they only match on entire strings.\r
+\r
+What sorts of message-id patterns did you want to search for?\r