The folder search implementation in the custom query parser is always rooted (both because that happened to be much easier to do in that design, and because I agree with you that rooted searches seem preferable most of the time). What arguments do people have for or against rooted folder searches?
On a similar note, another difference is that cworth's folder search is recursive (which, I suppose, follows from being non-rooted). That is, a search for "folder:foo" will find any message in any folder under foo. The folder search I posted is non-recursive. Thus, "folder:foo" specifically searches the foo maildir (that is, any mail under foo, foo/new, or foo/cur). I consider different folders to be, well, different, regardless of nesting, but what are other people's thoughts? On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> wrote: > > I'd be tempted to consider making folder: searches rooted by default. I > wonder how often people really want "all folders named misc"? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110119/ba536b8f/attachment-0001.html>
