Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de> wrote: > previously we were always sorting the returned results by some string value, > but sometimes we might just be interested in the number of results, and don't > need any sorting. > > Also add a --sort=unsorted command line option to notmuch search to test this.
Does this provide relevance-ranked search results? I think relevance ranking is the Xapian default if a sort order isn't specified. It would be useful to be able to obtain a relevance-ranked list of messages or threads that satisfy a query.