Inconsistency in quoting probabilistic prefixes?

Inconsistency in quoting probabilistic prefixes?

[artur.brzozowski]

Hey,

Trying to add List matching to my notmuch tagging and I found
something that surprises me. Namely,

1) when I want to match a bunch of alternatives for <from:>
prefix, I have to quote the parenthesis to get the results:

$ notmuch search 'from:"(box@some.io or mail@example.com)"'
<results found>
$ notmuch search 'from:(box@some.io or mail@example.com)'
<no results>

2) when I want to do the same to a parenthesised set of <List:>
alternatives, I must leave it unquoted to get the results.

$ notmuch search 'List:"(freebsd-announce@freebsd.org or misc@openbsd.org)"'
<no results>
$ notmuch search 'List:(freebsd-announce@freebsd.org or misc@openbsd.org)'
<results found>

I use the standard "index.header.List=List-Id" key-value as
pointed out in notmuch-config(1).

Is this expected behaviour? If so, why?


Regards,
Artur

Inconsistency in quoting probabilistic prefixes?

[artur.brzozowski]

Hi!

Trying to add List matching to my notmuch tagging and I found
something that surprises me. Namely,

1) when I want to match a bunch of alternatives for <from:>
prefix, I have to quote the parenthesis to get the results:

$ notmuch search 'from:"(box@some.io or mail@example.com)"'
<results found>
$ notmuch search 'from:(box@some.io or mail@example.com)'
<no results>

2) when I want to do the same to a parenthesised set of <List:>
alternatives, I must leave it unquoted to get the results.

$ notmuch search 'List:"(freebsd-announce@freebsd.org or misc@openbsd.org)"'
<no results>
$ notmuch search 'List:(freebsd-announce@freebsd.org or misc@openbsd.org)'
<results found>

I use the standard "index.header.List=List-Id" key-value as
pointed out in notmuch-config(1).

Is this expected behaviour? If so, why?


Regards,
Artur

Re: Inconsistency in quoting probabilistic prefixes?

[David Bremner]

"artur.brzozowski" <artur.brzozowski@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Trying to add List matching to my notmuch tagging and I found
> something that surprises me. Namely,
>
> 1) when I want to match a bunch of alternatives for <from:>
> prefix, I have to quote the parenthesis to get the results:
>
> $ notmuch search 'from:"(box@some.io or mail@example.com)"'
> <results found>
> $ notmuch search 'from:(box@some.io or mail@example.com)'
> <no results>
>
> 2) when I want to do the same to a parenthesised set of <List:>
> alternatives, I must leave it unquoted to get the results.
>
> $ notmuch search 'List:"(freebsd-announce@freebsd.org or misc@openbsd.org)"'
> <no results>
> $ notmuch search 'List:(freebsd-announce@freebsd.org or misc@openbsd.org)'
> <results found>
>
> I use the standard "index.header.List=List-Id" key-value as
> pointed out in notmuch-config(1).
>
> Is this expected behaviour? If so, why?

Unfortunately there are likely to be inconsistencies between those
fields supporting regex queries (like from) and "true" probabilistic
prefixes. I think that these problems are tricky to fix because of the
way notmuch extends the Xapian query parser, namely by reparsing a
"boolean" term.

The sexp query parser should not have these issues.

Re: Inconsistency in quoting probabilistic prefixes?

[David Bremner]

"artur.brzozowski" <artur.brzozowski@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hey,
>
> Trying to add List matching to my notmuch tagging and I found
> something that surprises me. Namely,

This is a duplicate message, my fault, I saw it in the moderation queue,
didn't realize it already went to the list.

d

Re: Inconsistency in quoting probabilistic prefixes?

[artur.brzozowski]

On Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 at 4:49 PM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately there are likely to be inconsistencies between those
> fields supporting regex queries (like from) and "true" probabilistic
> prefixes.

Thanks. Yes, I expected this to be at play.

> The sexp query parser should not have these issues.

Nice! I think I should rather use those because fighting with quotation is the last thing I want to ever do.

Kindly,
Artur