From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2 2/4] doc: add more information on operators.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:13:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150223201333.GD4408@odin.tremily.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424721937-5797-3-git-send-email-david@tethera.net>
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:05:35PM +0100, David Bremner wrote:
> +In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with
> +Boolean operators (**and**, **or**, **not**, and **xor**). Each term
> +in the query will be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no
> +explicit operator is provided, (except that terms with a common prefix
> +will be implicitly combined with OR). The shorthand '-<term>' can be used for 'not <term>' but
> +unfortunately this does not work at the start of an expression.
> Parentheses can also be used to control the combination of the Boolean
> operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the
> shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
> expression).
We should probably:
* Re-wrap the paragraph to avoid one long line.
* Drop the comma before the “(except …)” parens.
Cheers,
Trevor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-23 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-18 9:33 [PATCH] doc: add details about Xapian search syntax David Bremner
2015-01-18 10:29 ` Jani Nikula
2015-01-18 12:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] " David Bremner
2015-01-18 12:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc: add material on stemming and wildcards David Bremner
2015-02-23 18:18 ` Jani Nikula
2015-01-18 12:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] doc: add more information on operators David Bremner
2015-02-23 18:23 ` Jani Nikula
2015-01-25 17:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] doc: add details about Xapian search syntax David Bremner
2015-02-23 20:05 ` David Bremner
2015-02-23 20:05 ` [Patch v2 1/4] doc: add material on stemming and wildcards David Bremner
2015-02-23 20:05 ` [Patch v2 2/4] doc: add more information on operators David Bremner
2015-02-23 20:13 ` W. Trevor King [this message]
2015-02-23 20:05 ` [Patch v2 3/4] doc: typo fix for prefix discussion David Bremner
2015-02-23 20:05 ` [Patch v2 4/4] doc: update list of prefixes David Bremner
2015-02-24 7:32 ` David Bremner
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