[notmuch] strange behavior of indexing of and searching for strings containing '[]'

[Jameson Rollins]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:35:44 +0100, Jed Brown <jed at 59A2.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:24:06 -0500, Jameson Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> > I don't think that this is exactly correct.  The quoting is interpreted
> > by the shell in order to construct a single string that is then passed
> > as an argument to the program.
> 
> The command line distinguishes, but the constructed query does not.
> Look at query-string.c, the arguments are just concatenated.

Hi, Jed.  Yes, this is clear from the behavior, but I'm claiming it's a
bug that should be fixed.  It produces unexpected behavior with
confusing results.

jamie.
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