Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Jean-Marc Liotier writes: > I would have prefered explicit folder inclusion/exclusion at query time > and path inclusion/exclusion at indexing time... But I guess I'll get > used to notmuch's logic of tagging everything and then using the tags. In general tags are helpful (or just full text

Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 10/03/2015 08:10, David Bremner wrote: > [..] In fact the NM_myTopLevelFolder doesn't seem useful to me, > since you don't gain any new queries that way. > > So if you have .foo.* and .bar.*, I would > > mkdir foo > ln -rs .foo.* -t foo I had forgotten I could make a maildir without initial .

Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Jean-Marc Liotier writes: > > % cd ~/Maildir > % mkdir .NM_myTopLevelFolder > % ln -rs .myTopLevelFolder* -t .NM_myTopLevelFolder This is doing one level of links. If you want more hierarchy you'll have to create subdirectories with links to only some of your folders. In fact the

Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 09/03/2015 23:06, David Bremner wrote: > Jean-Marc Liotier writes: >> So nowadays, is there any other way to express "this folder and all its >> subfolders" ? The path: keyword does not seem useful for that with a maildir >> with a flat structure of dot.delimited.directories - or is there

Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Jean-Marc Liotier writes: > > So nowadays, is there any other way to express "this folder and all its > subfolders" ? The path: keyword does not seem useful for that with a > maildir with a flat structure of dot.delimited.directories - or is there > something like a dot.delimited.* wildcard ?

Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 10/03/2015 08:10, David Bremner wrote: [..] In fact the NM_myTopLevelFolder doesn't seem useful to me, since you don't gain any new queries that way. So if you have .foo.* and .bar.*, I would mkdir foo ln -rs .foo.* -t foo I had forgotten I could make a maildir without initial . just as

Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org writes: I would have prefered explicit folder inclusion/exclusion at query time and path inclusion/exclusion at indexing time... But I guess I'll get used to notmuch's logic of tagging everything and then using the tags. In general tags are helpful (or

Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org writes: % cd ~/Maildir % mkdir .NM_myTopLevelFolder % ln -rs .myTopLevelFolder* -t .NM_myTopLevelFolder This is doing one level of links. If you want more hierarchy you'll have to create subdirectories with links to only some of your folders. In fact the

Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-09 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Hello ! I am a brand new Notmuch user (and Mairix emigrant - looks like I am not the only one here), very impressed with how everything works right out of the box - thanks to all who made Notmuch ! From http://notmuchmail.org/news/release-0.18/ I read: "Wildcard matching (folder:foo*) is no

Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-09 Thread David Bremner
Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org writes: So nowadays, is there any other way to express this folder and all its subfolders ? The path: keyword does not seem useful for that with a maildir with a flat structure of dot.delimited.directories - or is there something like a dot.delimited.*

Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-09 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Hello ! I am a brand new Notmuch user (and Mairix emigrant - looks like I am not the only one here), very impressed with how everything works right out of the box - thanks to all who made Notmuch ! From http://notmuchmail.org/news/release-0.18/ I read: Wildcard matching (folder:foo*) is no

Re: Alternative to no longer supported folder:foo* wildcard matching ?

2015-03-09 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 09/03/2015 23:06, David Bremner wrote: Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org writes: So nowadays, is there any other way to express this folder and all its subfolders ? The path: keyword does not seem useful for that with a maildir with a flat structure of dot.delimited.directories - or is