From 6b0cf9b21a8fe8b9a3cd9479e46835bb0eef024b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:47:10 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] lib: add clarification about the use of "prefix" in the docs. --- lib/database.cc | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc index fc42c4ba..f33f0af6 100644 --- a/lib/database.cc +++ b/lib/database.cc @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ typedef struct { * We currently have three different types of documents (mail, ghost, * and directory) and also some metadata. * + * There are two kinds of prefixes used in notmuch. There are the + * human friendly 'prefix names' like "thread:", which are also used + * in the query parser, and the actual prefix terms in the database + * (e.g. "G"). The correspondence is maintained in the file scope data + * structure 'prefix_table'. + * * Mail document * ------------- * A mail document is associated with a particular email message. It -- 2.43.0