Tomi Ollila <tomi.oll...@iki.fi> writes: > > Why would not mesasge_id not be useful to regex match. I can come up quite > a few use cases... but if there are techinal difficulties... then that > should be mentioned instead.
I'll have a look. Since the first version of this patch (when that message was written), people have actually asked for some kind of wildcard matching of message-ids. > > maybe this commit message should inform that xapian with field processors > (1.4.x) is required for this feature -- and emphasize it a bit better in > manual page ? > > Probably '//' is used to escape '/' -- should such a character ever needed > in regex search. > Currently no escaping is needed because it only looks at the first and last characters of the string (the usual xapian/shell rules mean that "" might be needed). The following seem to work as hoped # match a / with a space before it % notmuch search 'subject:"/ //"' # just a slash % notmuch search subject:/// # anchored slash % notmuch search subject:/^// The trailing slash is actually decorative, we could drop it. Actually *blush* I just noticed the current code is missing something from this line if (str.at (0) == '/' && str.at (str.size () - 1)){ _if_ that line is fixed, then it will have the slightly odd behaviour of subject:/blah doing a non-regex search We could also throw an error for that case, maybe that's the best option. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch