io <i...@ooeeeoo.com> writes: > what xapian 'indexing system' did was to index the entire sentence > 'xxx_yyy' and you will not be able to find any sentence which contain > the word 'yyy'?
I'm curious that you refer to xxx_yyy as a sentence. In the contexts I am familiar with, the point of _ is to join things together into one word (or one identifier/token). Other than that your understanding seems correct. > xapian should have this simple wildcard feature which 'grep'(search) > offer. ($grep '*word*' file). It is strange that xapian restrict the > search to 'trailing wildcard' only. I guess the restriction is based on what is easy to do efficiently with the Xapian database (find prefixes). If I remember correctly there was some work in progress to support leading wildcards in Xapian. I can't find relevant discussion now, but I CC'ed the Xapian list in case someone remembers that. > Novice user who get introduce to notmuch just want to run the search > and get the result straight away. Generally the focus of Xapian (and thus notmuch) is on words and phrases like "bob ate my pizza". I agree this is disappointing for someone who wants "all the flexibility of grep, but faster". _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
