From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Custom query parser, date search, folder search, and more
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:48:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjw6hx2l.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110202050336.GB28537@mit.edu>
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Restricting my reply to one tiny bit of your mail:
You wrote:
> non-recursive is the only thing that makes sense for Maildir++ folders
Either I'm not understanding Maildir++ folders, or I don't agree with
you.
I might have an email archive that looks like this:
Maildir
.work
.project1
.project2
.etc...
.family
.dad
.mom
.brother
.etc...
With the above setup, what would be unreasonable about wanting to search
for all work-related messages (across all projects, say) with a string
like "folder:work" ?
Now, a person might definitely want to search for messages in the
".work" folder directly, (not including the sub-folders), so we should
provide support for users to get at that behavior as well, (such as a
proposed "folder:work$" or so).
To me, both cases are perfectly legitimate, and I don't understand an
argument that claims that only one makes sense. (Or again, I may be
misunderstanding something.)
-Carl
--
carl.d.worth@intel.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-02 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 8:10 [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Custom query parser, date search, folder search, and more Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 1/8] Implement a custom query parser with a mostly Xapian-compatible grammar Austin Clements
2011-01-21 6:37 ` [PATCH 1.5/8] Query parser testing framework and basic tests Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 2/8] Parse NEAR and ADJ operators Austin Clements
2011-01-21 6:39 ` [PATCH 2.5/8] Query parser tests for " Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 3/8] Parse wildcard queries Austin Clements
2011-01-21 6:40 ` [PATCH 3.5/8] Query parser tests for " Austin Clements
2011-01-22 16:47 ` Michal Sojka
2011-01-23 22:02 ` Austin Clements
2011-01-24 12:24 ` Michal Sojka
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] Replace Xapian query parser with custom query parser Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 5/8] Support "tag:*" as well as "NOT tag:*" queries Austin Clements
2011-01-24 17:15 ` [PATCH 5.5/8] test: Wildcard tag search and untagged search Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 6/8] Support maildir folder search Austin Clements
2011-01-24 17:13 ` [PATCH 6/8 v2] " Austin Clements
2011-01-24 17:18 ` [PATCH 6.5/8] test: Add tests for custom query parser-based folder searches Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 7/8] Implement value range queries Austin Clements
2011-01-16 8:10 ` [PATCH 8/8] Support before: and after: date search with sane date syntax Austin Clements
2011-01-24 17:20 ` [PATCH 8.5/8] test: Add tests for search by date Austin Clements
2011-01-31 4:33 ` [PATCH 9/8] qparser: Delete (and thus close) the Xapian database Austin Clements
2011-02-02 5:03 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Custom query parser, date search, folder search, and more Austin Clements
2011-02-02 22:48 ` Carl Worth [this message]
2011-02-03 6:14 ` Folder search semantics (was Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Custom query parser, date search, folder search, and more) Austin Clements
2011-02-20 19:52 ` Folder search semantics Rob Browning
2011-02-20 20:00 ` Rob Browning
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