Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-09 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Sat, May 03 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: First, are there people out there who do not use a collection of maildir directories, with all mail in cur and new? o/ I completely abandoned the usage of separate mail folders since I started using notmuch. All my mail now

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-07 Thread Mark Walters
The trick here is that it's easy to miss people who are happy with current functionality. Adding functionality to address newly-identified use cases makes a lot of sense. But removing functionality runs the risk of only discovering that people were relying on it after the fact, (Which seems

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-06 Thread Mark Walters
On Mon, 05 May 2014, Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org wrote: Hi Carl - On Tue, 06 May 2014, Carl Worth cwo...@cworth.org wrote: dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: However, currently it seems strange that there are *two* different search terms (folder and path), and that neither one

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-05 Thread Carl Worth
dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: First, thanks for the response. The responsiveness and friendliness of the notmuch mailing list goes a long way towards compensating for any missing features / customizability one might want. I'm delighted to hear that the notmuch community

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-05 Thread Jani Nikula
Hi Carl - On Tue, 06 May 2014, Carl Worth cwo...@cworth.org wrote: dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu writes: However, currently it seems strange that there are *two* different search terms (folder and path), and that neither one lets you search for a portion of your folder name. For

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-05 Thread Carl Worth
Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org writes: The discussions about this were lengthy and tedious, and I was glad we eventually reached some consensus about what we wanted. This much I do understand. And I apologize if I seem to be raising anew issues that should finally be behind us. Meanwhile, the

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-03 Thread Mark Walters
On Sat, 03 May 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org writes: On Fri, 02 May 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: I'm using a pretty standard maildir++ layout. For example, underneath my database.path I have a bunch of mail in

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-03 Thread dm-list-email-notmuch
Mark Walters markwalters1...@gmail.com writes: All the way back. Now you are saying there will be no convenient way to match just the mail.class part without the year? How very distressing. Ugh. Hi I am not quite sure what you are meaning by hierarchically group messages. Searching for

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-03 Thread Jani Nikula
On Sat, 03 May 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: Mark Walters markwalters1...@gmail.com writes: All the way back. Now you are saying there will be no convenient way to match just the mail.class part without the year? How very distressing. Ugh. Hi I am not quite sure

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-03 Thread Mark Walters
Hi On Sat, 03 May 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: Mark Walters markwalters1...@gmail.com writes: All the way back. Now you are saying there will be no convenient way to match just the mail.class part without the year? How very distressing. Ugh. Hi I am not quite

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-03 Thread dm-list-email-notmuch
Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org writes: It's not going to help you, but I'll mention a few of the issues the old folder: search had, which we also had complaints about, and which would have been quite hard to fix while preserving the behaviour you want. In short, we considered the old folder:

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-02 Thread Jani Nikula
On Fri, 02 May 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: Hey, I'm playing around with the head of the git repository (bc64cdce289d84be2550c4fccb1f008d15eaeb0e) to try to figure out how the new folder: prefixes work, as folders are a critical part of how I organize my mail. (Since

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-02 Thread David Mazieres expires 2014-07-31 PDT
Mark Walters markwalters1...@gmail.com writes: Hi Before checking other things: have you run notmuch new? That's needed to update the database. It is an irreversible update so notmuch-0.17 will not work with the updated database. No, I haven't. Okay, so that must be it. Sorry for

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-02 Thread dm-list-email-notmuch
Jani Nikula j...@nikula.org writes: On Fri, 02 May 2014, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: I'm using a pretty standard maildir++ layout. For example, underneath my database.path I have a bunch of mail in directories such as: .INBOX.Main/{new,cur} .mail.class/{new,cur}

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello David, On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:16:07PM -0700, David Mazieres expires 2014-07-31 PDT wrote: Mark Walters markwalters1...@gmail.com writes: Before checking other things: have you run notmuch new? That's needed to update the database. It is an irreversible update so notmuch-0.17

Re: folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

2014-05-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:57:49PM -0700, dm-list-email-notm...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: Worse, because of my poor performance, I was hoping to segregate messages by year. So it would be: 2013/.mail.class 2013/.mail.voicemail 2014/.mail.class 2014/.mail.voicemail All the way