From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969646DE02DA for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 05:54:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.556 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.556 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.164, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6PZ8yujL-Kjy for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 05:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-lf0-f52.google.com (mail-lf0-f52.google.com [209.85.215.52]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A74F6DE0281 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 05:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f52.google.com with SMTP id s186so29021484lfs.1 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:54:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gaute-vetsj-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:subject:to:references:in-reply-to:user-agent:message-id :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kLCw8Kf210jPBwlOiEkpU7U1Mur4VSBJqcFcah5fZ5o=; b=laCLU+DLRCyKue59pZDUZB5a8//2ZNNKtRGaNLYe/2Zr70kvdyr2g/6R9hAc1AcDtZ aTO5L3LCAMESTjGrDoKoI3WZByq4QIWsLXeDoJIAndDzmgHuWJl2HErSNet4VJaX1TTC YbQoTvpk3YgvtdD2BPp4cec8VY2juuCz6JMepRQZhs2XeKLuGLjdR8wkRML8H6uWja0e Ydk5DdFhze+5DE1j5iqgJbcXSEvfYwL7lM8yi9c+eHXAWKfdsPpQXRfNkuN2L6Tr7MZg oDwgYNUpy3mYNTPeDjdi8L5ktw0HmEuOIQ9LAJlxJQLdDCuY8QA7APxXMXPz4LHHkRfj yYyw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:subject:to:references:in-reply-to :user-agent:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kLCw8Kf210jPBwlOiEkpU7U1Mur4VSBJqcFcah5fZ5o=; b=WINNEexRgIqQhNv3w70OqSnuiYGl3ZeaBXC8Cu8pJpTc3w6AUdgzqFC7Ji46o+Fh1W Z9uUU1vdtW/HAGwsEQf/mxAutV0P+Y1saA/QRsk2ZveixH8aULT9pcR3P4+UY4HR7F2m Vc+y055Tz28dWOCTMbBml3jrGKysBm+XnZRMsfdEIVUPwXMWnwXykP4r62bCz2JasGkj mMUA5KPqDj3aIaTcKdHzDTbrOl0eCsqGw1XqU29Br+GTPIKyNv1mPv6RRQ25/gP8eiYl P9sQjDJA7/w8JkzK4Yl2CwDv3ksQIBngJMOkvo+YtzR/Mr7ubJ39JIWIuIKSI56DdOA9 SZJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJ3V5H3IQBsMKsnQK8T4TyX0jNMjL9SbhiZVG8OCfKgrG9V3wSUW/0lKuVgwrZPeg== X-Received: by 10.25.206.147 with SMTP id e141mr1078964lfg.138.1465217638372; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([128.39.46.106]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g4sm1677426lji.24.2016.06.06.05.53.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:53:55 +0000 From: Gaute Hope Subject: Re: searching: '*analysis' vs 'reanalysis' To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org References: <1465196150-astroid-3-33kf2otxir-16915@strange> <87lh2ijxor.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> In-Reply-To: <87lh2ijxor.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> User-Agent: astroid/v0.5-212-ge1a06043 (https://github.com/gauteh/astroid) Message-Id: <1465217156-astroid-4-8l08w9cils-2318@strange> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:54:10 -0000 David Bremner writes on juni 6, 2016 14:42: > Gaute Hope writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I have an email with the word 'reanalysis' in the subject line and the >> email body. However, when I try to search for '*analysis' or 'analysis' >> I do not get any matches, should not '*analysis' at least match? >> > > We talked about this on IRC (the short answer is no), but is there some > improvement you could suggest to the "Wildcards" section in > notmuch-search-terms(7) ? Yes, thanks, not very important, but maybe add the sentence: > It is not possible to use wildcards at the beginning of a term. after the current explanation to emphasize this limitation (possibly blaming Xapian to avoid futile requests). I think it is something many would expect (and want). The current description feels more like an example, and it is easy to make the assumption that it works for prefixing the terms as well - although, technically, nothing is promised in the original docs. -gaute =