From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:48:41 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>, Notmuch list
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+Subject: Re: Aliases in notmuch queries
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+Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
+> I'm not familiar with the notmuch code base at all, but I would like to
+> help getting this feature in.  Do you have any hints where I should
+> start looking?  Is there any background work that I could do?
+
+I think the following pieces are needed:
+
+1) Enable synonyms when opening the database
+
+2) enable synonyms in the query parser
+
+These first two should be covered in the xapian docs
+
+3) load the synonyms from a file.
+   - this needs some infrastructure, and some decisions about how to
+   handle such configuration info.
+
+4) add the synonyms (using db.add_synonym)
+
+d