From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k3douvls.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob30fhhq.fsf@nikula.org>
On Sat, Jan 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>>> Perhaps we need to have two prefixes, one of which is the literal
>>> filesystem folder and another which hides the implementation details,
>>> like I mentioned in my mail to Peter [1]. But consider this: my proposed
>>> implementation does cover *all* use cases.
>>
>> I challenge that with my use case: my mails are arranged as follows:
>
> [snip]
>
>> For me the current folder: works as I don't have collisions.
>
> Fair enough, your use case would be *very inconvenient* with the
> proposed changes to the folder: prefix, *regardless* of whether the leaf
> cur/new is indexed and required or not.
>
> (Very inconvenient, or practically impossible, as you'd have to include
> all those 01..ff directories in your searches.)
Well, I currently run notmuch via a wrapper anyway, I can make it expand
folder:foo to '(' folder:foo/00 or folder:foo/01 or ... folder:foo/ff ')'
;)
>> For me a folder: search which would just work as a prefix i.e. match
>> anything under given directory hierarchy would work best.
>
> Indeed. Your use case is not an argument in whether cur/new should be
> included or not.
>
> That "recursive folder prefix" suggestion is, I think, incompatible with
> the requirements for the literal folder: prefix we've been considering.
Yes, I am late in this discussion as I realized that just today. I
don't want to hinder progress there...
>
> BR,
> Jani.
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-25 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 22:18 [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal Jani Nikula
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Jani Nikula
2014-01-24 21:18 ` Austin Clements
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] test: fix insert folder: searches Jani Nikula
2014-01-24 21:20 ` Austin Clements
2014-01-25 19:32 ` Rob Browning
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] test: fix test for literal folder: search Jani Nikula
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] test: add test database in format version 1 Jani Nikula
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 5/5] test: add database upgrade test from " Jani Nikula
2014-01-24 21:17 ` [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal Austin Clements
2014-01-24 23:21 ` David Bremner
2014-01-25 9:33 ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-25 10:47 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-01-25 11:06 ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-25 11:52 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2014-01-25 15:38 ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-25 16:58 ` David Bremner
2014-01-25 18:22 ` Jani Nikula
[not found] ` <874n4rvcvo.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
2014-01-29 19:05 ` Jani Nikula
[not found] ` <87k3dir3ci.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
2014-01-29 20:46 ` Austin Clements
[not found] ` <87bnyuqw60.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
2014-01-30 6:34 ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-30 21:15 ` Mark Walters
2014-01-30 22:02 ` Austin Clements
2014-01-31 19:19 ` Rob Browning
2014-02-04 20:14 ` Austin Clements
2014-02-04 20:17 ` Rob Browning
2014-01-31 19:24 ` Rob Browning
2014-02-01 14:54 ` Jani Nikula
2014-02-04 20:02 ` Austin Clements
2014-02-05 13:12 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-02-05 21:12 ` Tomi Ollila
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