From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:21:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m261f26k8c.fsf@dme.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mum1x2x.fsf@nikula.org>
On Wed, Oct 29 2014, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
>> Adding a terminal slash to a directory name when using --path causes the
>> search to fail. Removing the terminal slash produces results.
>
> I think you mean path:, not --path.
Yes, sorry.
> Anyway, the reason for this behaviour is that the path components are
> indexed as boolean terms, not unlike tags, just with a different
> namespace. It's all parsed in Xapian, not in Notmuch. Adding the /
> variants would mean indexing twice the amount of terms.
Could we always prune a trailing slash from the path: component of a
query before using it?
>> Given that many shells will add the terminal slash during completion,
>> this is lame(-ish).
>
> Given that path: expects a relative path from the maildir root, not just
> any path, and the notmuch bash completion script (if you happen to use
> bash) does exactly this, without adding the slash, I'm not too worried.
I'm almost always doing this in Emacs shell-mode, manipulating the
pathnames on the fly. This means that I can adapt, of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-29 17:07 "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish) David Edmondson
2014-10-29 17:14 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-10-29 19:43 ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-30 8:21 ` David Edmondson [this message]
2014-10-31 7:36 ` David Bremner
2017-03-29 10:34 ` David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` strip trailing '/' from path/folder query David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 1/6] test: sanitize generated message files names David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] test: known broken tests for trailing / in path search (infix) David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] test/sexp: tests for path, folder, including trailing '/' (sexp) David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 4/6] lib: drop trailing slash for path and folder searches (infix) David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 5/6] test: add multiple path, folder sexp query tests David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] lib: strip trailing '/' from pathnames (sexp queries) David Bremner
2022-01-21 23:42 ` strip trailing '/' from path/folder query David Bremner
2022-01-27 11:59 ` David Bremner
2022-01-27 12:04 ` "search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish) David Bremner
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