Folder-based searching

2011-01-21 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:45:04 -0800, mazieres-6kd3dvy8f9kx6dc7vcsytfvnai at temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu wrote: > This folder-based searching is very handy. Hello, anonymous poster from Stanford. Welcome to notmuch! I'm glad you're happy with the folder-based searching and I hope you f

Folder-based searching

2011-01-21 Thread mazieres-6kd3dvy8f9kx6dc7vcsytfv...@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu
This folder-based searching is very handy. However, I have a scenario in which I'd prefer to consolidate mail to multiple addresses into one or a small number of physical mail folders. Thus, what I really want to search on is not the mail folder name, but the Delivered-To: header. Can someone

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-21 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:45:04 -0800, mazieres-6kd3dvy8f9kx6dc7vcsytfv...@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu wrote: This folder-based searching is very handy. Hello, anonymous poster from Stanford. Welcome to notmuch! I'm glad you're happy with the folder-based searching and I hope you find

Folder-based searching

2011-01-19 Thread Austin Clements
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

Folder-based searching

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Browning
Carl Worth writes: > This works in a similar way to 'subject:"some phrase"', (though more > people seem to be asking about these details for folder: than have ever > asked for subject:). I'm not surprised. Imagine: /misc /debian/misc If I understand correctly, right now you'd have to say

Folder-based searching

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:29 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > I'd be tempted to consider making folder: searches rooted by default. I > wonder how often people really want "all folders named misc"? That's a possibility---*after* someone does the work to enable rooted searches in the first place.

Folder-based searching

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:11 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Nice. Thanks. > So what are the path semantics? For example, is the path case > sensitive or insensitive? Can you say folder:foo/bar, and if so, is the > path rooted, or can it match path sub-segments? > > i.e. which of these, if

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:11 -0600, Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org wrote: Nice. Thanks. So what are the path semantics? For example, is the path case sensitive or insensitive? Can you say folder:foo/bar, and if so, is the path rooted, or can it match path sub-segments? i.e. which of

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Browning
Carl Worth cwo...@cworth.org writes: This works in a similar way to 'subject:some phrase', (though more people seem to be asking about these details for folder: than have ever asked for subject:). I'm not surprised. Imagine: /misc /debian/misc If I understand correctly, right now you'd

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-18 Thread Austin Clements
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

Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:43:44 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > > Before the next release, I plan to increment the database version so > > that users will be notified of the need to do an upgrade like this. (But > > before I do that, I plan to implement a few more database changes---and > > some

Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
> Before the next release, I plan to increment the database version so > that users will be notified of the need to do an upgrade like this. (But > before I do that, I plan to implement a few more database changes---and > some of them are likely to be much more invasive than this one). Hurray,

Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Rob Browning
Carl Worth writes: > Someone bringing in mail from such a system might want to migrate from > information in directory names to instead be information in notmuch > tags. That might look something like this: > > notmuch tag +important folder:important Nice. So what are the path semantics?

Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Xavier Maillard
Hi, On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > I'm as sad as anyone to see that I let more than a month go by without > committing to the notmuch repository. Life goes like this... > But I've just now committed the much-desired folder-based search > feature. Awesome ! > This

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:43:44 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de wrote: Before the next release, I plan to increment the database version so that users will be notified of the need to do an upgrade like this. (But before I do that, I plan to implement a few more database

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Rob Browning
Carl Worth cwo...@cworth.org writes: Someone bringing in mail from such a system might want to migrate from information in directory names to instead be information in notmuch tags. That might look something like this: notmuch tag +important folder:important Nice. So what are the

Re: Folder-based searching

2011-01-17 Thread Xavier Maillard
Hi, On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:46:53 -0800, Carl Worth cwo...@cworth.org wrote: I'm as sad as anyone to see that I let more than a month go by without committing to the notmuch repository. Life goes like this... But I've just now committed the much-desired folder-based search feature. Awesome

Folder-based searching

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Worth
I'm as sad as anyone to see that I let more than a month go by without committing to the notmuch repository. But I've just now committed the much-desired folder-based search feature. This should be a handy feature for people bringing mail in from a system that stores information in the

Folder-based searching

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Worth
I'm as sad as anyone to see that I let more than a month go by without committing to the notmuch repository. But I've just now committed the much-desired folder-based search feature. This should be a handy feature for people bringing mail in from a system that stores information in the