From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] test/search: add check for slightly trick search
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 23:54:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimoAmxQk8GgM73PmuB6fjbAF0Hefg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=5nv+iC13t8MEg+M4Mx-Gt0ggH_Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +output=$(notmuch search from:'search-by-from@' | notmuch_search_sanitize)
>
> I don't think this does what you think it does. Xapian only
> understands double quotes around phrases, not single quotes.
> Furthermore, a single quote after a prefix prevents that token from
> acting as a prefix, so you search is finding messages containing the
> *word* "from" and the phrase "search by from" *anywhere* (which is a
> phrase not because of the quotes, but because of the hyphens).
>
> The test results happen to be the same if you use single quotes or
> double quotes, but for very different reasons.
Ok, how about:
search from:search-by-from@
Would that be better?
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 20:26 [PATCH v2] test/search: add check for slightly trick search Felipe Contreras
2011-05-04 20:46 ` Austin Clements
2011-05-04 20:54 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2011-05-04 21:26 ` Austin Clements
2011-05-04 21:55 ` [PATCH v3] test/search: add check for slightly tricky search Felipe Contreras
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