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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v4] lib: regexp matching in 'subject' and 'from'
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Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> TOn Sun, Jan 29 2017, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd go with an error. It's easy to loosen the rules later on if we
>> decide that's a good idea. Much harder to accept loose rules now, let
>> users get used to it, and try to tighten the rules if we realize we'd
>> need that for some reason.
>
> I agree -- should we allow trailing slash ('/') without first char also
> being '/' (e.g. subject:blah/)
>

I'd say that should also be an error. it doesn't add anything useful to
subject search. Even for path search, (which is non-trivial to add regex
search for, I think) the trailing / doesn't add anything does it?

d