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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] lib: regexp matching in 'subject' and 'from'
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:01:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sw0f5g6.fsf@rocinante.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f5scewx.fsf@nikula.org>

Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:


> I played around with this a bit, and it seemed to work. Unsurprisingly,
> getting the quoting right was the hardest part. Even though I know how
> the stuff works under the hood, it took me a while to realize that you
> have to use 're:"subject:<regex with spaces>"' to make it work. (I kept
> trying 're:subject:"<regex with spaces>"'.) I don't know if there's
> anything we could really do about this.
>

I _think_ we could add distinct prefixes at the xapian level for each
regex-prefix. That opens the can of worms of naming them eg re-subject:
and re-from:. I'm not sure about the added complexity, but I think it's
a matter of adding an extra argument to the field processor constructor.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-18 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-27 13:33 [PATCH] lib: regexp matching in 'subject' and 'from' David Bremner
2016-11-14 21:46 ` [Patch v2] " David Bremner
2017-01-18 20:05   ` Jani Nikula
2017-01-18 21:01     ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-01-19 12:16       ` [Patch v3] " David Bremner
2017-01-21  3:27         ` [WIP] " David Bremner
2017-01-21 13:59           ` [Patch v4] " David Bremner
2017-01-25 19:40             ` Tomi Ollila
2017-01-26  2:21               ` David Bremner
2017-01-29 11:23                 ` Jani Nikula
2017-02-05 20:16                   ` Tomi Ollila
2017-02-05 23:28                     ` David Bremner
2017-02-09  3:11                   ` David Bremner
2017-02-09 16:15                     ` Tomi Ollila
2017-02-10  8:29                     ` Mark Walters
2017-02-11 23:25                       ` David Bremner
2017-01-29 11:06               ` Jani Nikula
2017-01-19 14:27   ` [Patch v2] " David Bremner

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