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 8F012431FB6 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:54:31 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=unavailable 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 L-BG2RjxdYFD for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from defaultvalue.org (defaultvalue.org [70.85.129.156]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A31A431FB5 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAAA90D34; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E3656603D; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:29 -0600 (CST) Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DDF07BB463; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:29 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Browning To: Carl Worth Subject: Re: Folder-based searching References: <87tyh9wzs2.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> <87oc7fe590.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87aaiy3u65.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:29 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87aaiy3u65.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (Carl Worth's message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:09:54 -0800") Message-ID: <871v4a7zt6.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org 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: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:54:31 -0000 Carl Worth writes: > This works in a similar way to 'subject:"some phrase"', (though more > people seem to be asking about these details for folder: than have ever > asked for subject:). I'm not surprised. Imagine: /misc /debian/misc If I understand correctly, right now you'd have to say folder:misc and not folder:debian/misc which is not nearly as handy as folder:^misc and at first, a lot of people may not even realize that they need the "and not" clauses. I'd be tempted to consider making folder: searches rooted by default. I wonder how often people really want "all folders named misc"? > That will require a little care to get some additional terms indexed to > support the rooting, then the in-development custom query parser to > allow mapping symbols like '^' and '$' to these new symbols. Sounds good. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4