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From: jorge+list@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto)
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Apparently, terms with a common prefix are *not* connected by implicit "OR"
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:20:38 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfvzipp5.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)

Hi.  The NOTMUCH-SEARCH-TERMS man page says:

    Each term in the query will be implicitly connected by a logical AND
    if no explicit operator is provided (except that terms with a common
    prefix will be implicitly combined with OR).

However, in practice I get different results:
    $ notmuch count '(to:pontodosconcursos.com.br OR to:jorge+cp+concurso@disroot.org)'
    66
    $ notmuch count '(to:pontodosconcursos.com.br to:jorge+cp+concurso@disroot.org)'
    0

I have other examples of this.  I currently use notmuch 0.29.1 privately
backported to Debian buster according to the Debian Wiki [procedure][],
but I already got this problem in earlier notmuch releases, including
the official Debian buster package.  What gives?

[procedure]: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

My workarund is to always explicit the "OR" operator, as in:
    (to:concurso OR to:dominandoti OR to:cebraspe OR to:gleyson131 OR to:quadrix.org.br OR to:cathedranet.com.br OR from:cathedranet.com.br OR from:quadrix.org.br OR from:gleyson131 OR from:cebraspe OR from:dominandoti OR from:concurso OR is:lists/itaconcursos)

If the OR operator was indeed implicit, the query above would be
shorter.

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-08-11 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-11 17:20 Jorge P. de Morais Neto [this message]
2019-08-11 23:08 ` Apparently, terms with a common prefix are *not* connected by implicit "OR" David Bremner
2019-08-15 14:58   ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-21  1:39     ` David Bremner
2019-08-21  5:48       ` Rollins, Jameson
2019-08-21 11:41         ` WIP: fix implicit operators David Bremner
2019-08-21 11:41           ` [PATCH 1/3] test: add known broken tests for from: and subject: David Bremner
2019-08-25  9:33             ` Tomi Ollila
2019-08-21 11:41           ` [PATCH 2/3] lib: introduce N_F_GROUP and use it to fix implicit AND for from: David Bremner
2019-08-21 11:41           ` [PATCH 3/3] WIP/test: extend field grouping tests David Bremner

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