Re: [Bug] lei: extra quotes inserted into query with AND/OR

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Henrik Grimler <henrik@grimler.se> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently found out about lei and installed it through archlinux's
> package manager and am trying out queries. When using AND/OR extra
> quotes are inserted in the curl command which messes it up, for
> example:
> 
> $ lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/all/ -o ~/mail/foo 'dfn:COPYING OR dfn:Makefile'
> # /home/grimler/.local/share/lei/store 0/0
> # /usr/bin/curl -Sf -s -d '' https://lore.kernel.org/all/?x=m&q=dfn%3A%22COPYING+OR+dfn%3AMakefile%22
> # 0 written to /home/grimler/mail/foo/ (0 matches)
> 
> where it can be seen that it tries to search for 'dfn:"COPYING OR
> dfn:Makefile"', and no hits are returned since there is no file named
> "COPYING OR dfn:Makefile".

Don't use quotes unless you want a phrase search.

Basically, I wanted the CLI and WWW search to feel the same.

> Is this a known issue, or am I doing something wrong?

I think you're the second user to add unnecessary quotes;
is it learned behavior from another search tool?

In my experience, generic web search engines don't use quotes
outside of phrase search, either...

My primary mail experience is from using mairix, so lei borrows
heavily from it.  But IIRC, mairix doesn't support phrase search.

Anyways, thanks for the note and any future comments you provide :>