From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow to not sort the search results
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:55:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100414065525.GA11770@jdc.jasonjgw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271226655-5672-1-git-send-email-Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:
> previously we were always sorting the returned results by some string value,
> but sometimes we might just be interested in the number of results, and don't
> need any sorting.
>
> Also add a --sort=unsorted command line option to notmuch search to test this.
Does this provide relevance-ranked search results? I think relevance ranking
is the Xapian default if a sort order isn't specified.
It would be useful to be able to obtain a relevance-ranked list of messages or
threads that satisfy a query.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 6:30 [PATCH] allow to not sort the search results Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-14 6:55 ` Jason White [this message]
2010-04-14 7:51 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-15 12:54 ` Olly Betts
2010-04-16 6:37 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-16 6:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] query.cc: allow to return query results unsorted Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-16 6:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] notmuch-search: Introduce --sort=unsorted Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-16 6:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] notmuch-tag: don't sort messages before applying tag changes Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-16 6:58 ` [PATCH] allow to not sort the search results Olly Betts
2010-04-18 13:56 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-21 23:09 ` Carl Worth
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