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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for
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Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

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> How would one search for hyphenated words with notmuch?
>

In special cases, explained in notmuch-search-terms(7), one can use
regexp searches, which are slower, but don't drop punctuation.

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