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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Matt Armstrong <marmstrong@google.com>,
	David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] lib: add clarification about the use of "prefix" in the docs.
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:47:10 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190313004712.13359-3-david@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190313004712.13359-1-david@tethera.net>

---
 lib/database.cc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index fc42c4ba..f33f0af6 100644
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ typedef struct {
  * We currently have three different types of documents (mail, ghost,
  * and directory) and also some metadata.
  *
+ * There are two kinds of prefixes used in notmuch. There are the
+ * human friendly 'prefix names' like "thread:", which are also used
+ * in the query parser, and the actual prefix terms in the database
+ * (e.g. "G"). The correspondence is maintained in the file scope data
+ * structure 'prefix_table'.
+ *
  * Mail document
  * -------------
  * A mail document is associated with a particular email message. It
-- 
2.20.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-13  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-18 11:56 [PATCH] WIP: add searching by body: David Bremner
2019-02-18 13:06 ` David Bremner
2019-03-04  2:29 ` [PATCH] lib: add 'body:' field, stop indexing headers twice David Bremner
2019-03-05  1:26   ` Matt Armstrong
2019-03-13  0:47     ` v2. add body: / drop double indexing of headers David Bremner
2019-03-13  0:47       ` [PATCH 1/4] lib: drop comment about only indexing one file David Bremner
2019-03-13  0:47       ` David Bremner [this message]
2019-03-13  0:47       ` [PATCH 3/4] lib: update commentary about path/folder terms David Bremner
2019-03-31 17:53         ` David Bremner
2019-03-13  0:47       ` [PATCH 4/4] lib: add 'body:' field, stop indexing headers twice David Bremner
2019-03-13  5:30         ` David Bremner
2019-03-13 11:44           ` [PATCH] " David Bremner
2019-03-19  0:39             ` David Bremner
2019-03-29 13:17               ` David Bremner
2019-04-14 11:32               ` David Bremner
2019-04-17 11:55               ` David Bremner

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