From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53251431FAF for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:15:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.7 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4akZIXLZOqLB for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu (DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-3.MIT.EDU [18.9.25.14]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4735431FAE for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:15:39 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 1209190e-b7f7c6d0000008c3-c1-4f625bfb36f0 Received: from mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu ( [18.7.62.39]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id C7.C3.02243.BFB526F4; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id q2FLFcM2021256; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:38 -0400 Received: from awakening.csail.mit.edu (awakening.csail.mit.edu [18.26.4.91]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as amdragon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id q2FLFaWW024628 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from amthrax by awakening.csail.mit.edu with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1S8I1I-000127-J3; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:36 -0400 From: Austin Clements To: Mark Anderson Subject: Re: Improving notmuch query documentation [was: Re: Partial words on notmuch search?] Message-ID: <20120315211536.GB2670@mit.edu> References: <20120115220600.GO7037@think.nuvreauspam> <877h0sa207.fsf@fester.com> <20120116202103.GA14329@think.nuvreauspam> <20120117023431.GF16740@mit.edu> <20120117221435.GN3272@think.nuvreauspam> <20120117222923.GU16740@mit.edu> <3wd62g6mbtd.fsf@testarossa.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3wd62g6mbtd.fsf@testarossa.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFupmleLIzCtJLcpLzFFi42IRYrdT1/0dneRvcPedrMWqCdIWH8/dZbW4 fnMmswOzR+ulv2weO2fdZfd4tuoWcwBzFJdNSmpOZllqkb5dAlfG3K29rAUruSpad7xna2D8 xd7FyMkhIWAiMaunF8oWk7hwbz1bFyMXh5DAPkaJidt6WUASQgIbGCUut8tD2CeZJDb8dIIo WsIo8eH8SWaQBIuAqsTcA61gNpuAhsS2/csZQWwRAS2JO6/XsIHYzALZEjtP9ILZwgIJEmcm bwar4RXQlnj6cQcbxIKZTBKTNudAxAUlTs58wgLRqyVx499Lpi5GDiBbWmL5Pw6QMKeAocS8 v/fAHhAVUJGYcnIb2wRGoVlIumch6Z6F0L2AkXkVo2xKbpVubmJmTnFqsm5xcmJeXmqRrrFe bmaJXmpK6SZGUJhzSvLtYPx6UOkQowAHoxIPbyBvkr8Qa2JZcWXuIUZJDiYlUd5fUUAhvqT8 lMqMxOKM+KLSnNTiQ4wSHMxKIrwZBon+QrwpiZVVqUX5MClpDhYlcV41rXd+QgLpiSWp2amp BalFMFkZDg4lCd5CYDwLCRalpqdWpGXmlCCkmTg4QYbzAA3PAqnhLS5IzC3OTIfIn2JUlBLn 7QZJCIAkMkrz4HphaegVozjQK8K8+SBVPMAUBtf9CmgwE9Dgkm9xIINLEhFSUg2Mzh9m3Fl+ a9+OLoktz25bXJtz546pXaPWZebuvSxvThSfMPseMYFpvutM7tlTf8jmMTKHee55+u3k0mcF G448n3yBmeX9pjdmdl9TDBp+f+a9tS9eoXThRAYHH6n4grenDP63FSxdeNx9dufnW2KJqfvs jot/8tUT1z2y4doVR10Jk8SP/v+PsiixFGckGmoxFxUnAgAXIqZQHgMAAA== Cc: "notmuch@notmuchmail.org" , Andrei Popescu X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:15:40 -0000 Quoth Mark Anderson on Jan 20 at 12:08 pm: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:29:23 -0600, Austin Clements wrote: > > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 18 at 12:14 am: > > > On Lu, 16 ian 12, 21:34:31, Austin Clements wrote: > > > > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm: > > > > > Where can I read more about this? (except the source :) > > > > > > > > Most of this is in the Xapian query syntax document you found. Really > > > > we ought to beef-up Notmuch's query syntax documentation. > > > > > > If I get around to write something myself where do you suggest I should > > > start, the wiki or the manpage? > > > > Probably expanding man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7 would be the way to > > go. > > I would appreciate it if the limitations of id: search were explained > there too. I have some rules that I would love to make based on pattern > matching the message-id of the message, because I have a tool that > generates scads of email and I want to be able to delete a lot of it. > > I think that id: is only matchable as an entire string, and a > confirmation of that would be nice to see. This is true. thread:, id:, tag:, and is: are "boolean prefixes", which means they only match on entire strings. What sorts of message-id patterns did you want to search for?