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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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