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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)
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David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> Adding a terminal slash to a directory name when using --path causes the
> search to fail. Removing the terminal slash produces results.
>
> Given that many shells will add the terminal slash during completion,
> this is lame(-ish).

This would be relatively straightforward to impliment on top of

     id:20170324121436.28978-2-david@tethera.net

In particular add a filter to strip trailing / in the non-regex case.

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