add property: query prefix to search for specific properties

[notmuch] / lib / database.cc

diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index 57a98c94204f5db2e2714b2568d2424ccb66264c..392e8b2869842130e1372b52d5d9329d0151577e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ typedef struct {
  *                     STRING is the name of a file within that
  *                     directory for this mail message.
  *
+ *      property:       Has a property with key=value
+ *                 FIXME: if no = is present, should match on any value
+ *
  *    A mail document also has four values:
  *
  *     TIMESTAMP:      The time_t value corresponding to the message's
@@ -259,11 +262,12 @@ static prefix_t BOOLEAN_PREFIX_EXTERNAL[] = {
     { "is",                    "K" },
     { "id",                    "Q" },
     { "path",                  "P" },
+    { "property",              "XPROPERTY" },
     /*
-     * Without the ":", since this is a multi-letter prefix, Xapian
-     * will add a colon itself if the first letter of the path is
-     * upper-case ASCII. Including the ":" forces there to always be a
-     * colon, which keeps our own logic simpler.
+     * Unconditionally add ':' to reduce potential ambiguity with
+     * overlapping prefixes and/or terms that start with capital
+     * letters. See Xapian document termprefixes.html for related
+     * discussion.
      */
     { "folder",                        "XFOLDER:" },
 };