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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: sort by relevance?
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Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:

>   while reading a bit about Xapian with regards to [0] I came across
> sorting by relevance? Is this currently possible? Especially in OR
> searches with many terms I think this would be very useful.

Depends on your definition of possible. It's not supported by the
current code. I think it wouldn't be too hard to add, see
notmuch_query_set_sort and _notmuch_query_search_documents (query.cc).

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