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From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: doc: notmuch help search-terms, boolean operators
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:29:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110426232913.GM24964@survex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3k81ute.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:24:38 +0200, Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net> wrote:
> > Through playing with `notmuch tag` and `notmuch search
> > --output=messages` I found:
> > 
> > Complete list of boolean operators in order of precedence:
> > - NOT
> > - AND
> > - XOR
> > - OR
> > 
> > Is this correct? If yes, I would extend the manpage accordingly.
> 
> Currently, notmuch doesn't implement this behavior but relies on
> Xapian's query parser to do so. As such, I'd really prefer to see
> Xapian's documentation augmented here before we start documenting
> any particular behavior in notmuch.
> 
> Olly, is the above list of operators complete and in the correct order
> of  precendence?

Close, but actually AND and NOT have equal precedence.

Also, NEAR and ADJ bind tighter than AND or NOT.

And '+' and '-' tightest of all.

I'll try to make sure this gets documented.

Cheers,
    Olly

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26 22:24 doc: notmuch help search-terms, boolean operators Florian Friesdorf
2011-04-26 23:01 ` Carl Worth
2011-04-26 23:11   ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-04-26 23:29   ` Olly Betts [this message]
2011-04-26 23:55 ` Austin Clements

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