Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-13 Thread Matt Armstrong
David Bremner writes: > Matt Armstrong writes: > >> Carl Worth writes: >> >>> Hi Gregor, >>> >>> The trick here is that when notmuch is indexing body text it feeds it >>> into a Xapian function that parses the text by finding "terms" in the >>> text. And this parser considers both punctuation a

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-12 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi David, * David Bremner [2019-03-12; 07:41]: > Gregor Zattler writes: > > >> From: root@len.workgroup (Cron Daemon) >> Subject: Cron ~/bin/mailwiederdurchschleusen >> To: root@localhost >> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:00:09 +0100 >> >> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:04:52 -0500 >> From: Maxim Cournoye

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-12 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, Mar 12 2019, Gregor Zattler wrote: > what I do not understand is that it dosn't matter if I search for > > org-notmuch > > or > > "org-notmuch" > > '"org-notmuch"' > > or even > > org ADJ/1 notmuch Correct. All four of those forms are giving you phrase searches, (so a term "org" followed i

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-12 Thread David Bremner
Gregor Zattler writes: > From: root@len.workgroup (Cron Daemon) > Subject: Cron ~/bin/mailwiederdurchschleusen > To: root@localhost > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:00:09 +0100 > > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:04:52 -0500 > From: Maxim Cournoyer > To: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Gnus and ema

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-12 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi David, Matt, Carl, notmuch developers, * David Bremner [2019-03-11; 22:13]: > Matt Armstrong writes: >> Carl Worth writes: >>> The trick here is that when notmuch is indexing body text it feeds it >>> into a Xapian function that parses the text by finding "terms" in the >>> text. And this par

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-11 Thread David Bremner
Matt Armstrong writes: > Carl Worth writes: > >> Hi Gregor, >> >> The trick here is that when notmuch is indexing body text it feeds it >> into a Xapian function that parses the text by finding "terms" in the >> text. And this parser considers both punctuation and whitespace as >> separators bet

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-11 Thread David Bremner
Gregor Zattler writes: > Hi David, notmuch developers, > * David Bremner [2019-03-10; 20:22]: >> Gregor Zattler writes: >>> How would one search for hyphenated words with notmuch? >>> >> >> In special cases, explained in notmuch-search-terms(7), one can use >> regexp searches, which are slower,

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-11 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi David, notmuch developers, * David Bremner [2019-03-10; 20:22]: > Gregor Zattler writes: >> How would one search for hyphenated words with notmuch? >> > > In special cases, explained in notmuch-search-terms(7), one can use > regexp searches, which are slower, but don't drop punctuation. thank

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Gregor Zattler writes: > > How would one search for hyphenated words with notmuch? > In special cases, explained in notmuch-search-terms(7), one can use regexp searches, which are slower, but don't drop punctuation. d ___ notmuch mailing list notmuch@

Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-08 Thread Carl Worth
Hi Gregor, The trick here is that when notmuch is indexing body text it feeds it into a Xapian function that parses the text by finding "terms" in the text. And this parser considers both punctuation and whitespace as separators between terms. So your messages are not being indexed in a way to le

how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

2019-03-08 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hello, * Gregor Zattler [2018-07-23; 14:20]: > today I searched for emails containing > > -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.- today I searched for emails containing "org-notmuch" (which supports org links to notmuch searches), e.g. with notmuch search org-notmuch notmuch search -- org-notmuch notmu