From 485678413ca988b9de84ae7110979599794c1739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:15:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] TODO: Add some ideas about better search syntax Recent coding around the "*" feature suggests some improvements that we could make, (some of which might push us into writing a custom query parser rather than using the one that exists in Xapian). --- TODO | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 85ef2f58..23585c80 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -208,6 +208,32 @@ notmuch searches. Here was one proposal made in IRC: Provide a ~me Xapian synonym for all of the user's configured email addresses. +Search syntax +------------- +Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags. + +Fix "notmuch search to:" to be less confusing. Many users expect this +to search for all messages with a To: header, but it instead searches +for all messages with the word "to". If we don't provide the first +behavior, perhaps we should exit on an error when a configured prefix +is provided with no value? + +Support "*" in all cases and not just as a special case. That is, "* " +should also work, as well as "* and tag:inbox". + +Implement a syntax for requesting set-theoertic operations on results +of multiple searches. For example, I would like to do: + + "tag:inbox" SET-SUBTRACT "tag:muted" + + as well as: + + "tag:notmuch and " SET-INTERSECT + "tag:notmuch and not (tag:merged or tag:postponed)" + + See id:3wdpr282yz2.fsf@testarossa.amd.com for more details on the + use cases of the above. + Database changes ---------------- Store a reference term for every message-id that appears in -- 2.43.0