Folder-based searching

[Austin Clements]

The folder search implementation in the custom query parser is always rooted
(both because that happened to be much easier to do in that design, and
because I agree with you that rooted searches seem preferable most of the
time).  What arguments do people have for or against rooted folder searches?

On a similar note, another difference is that cworth's folder search is
recursive (which, I suppose, follows from being non-rooted).  That is, a
search for "folder:foo" will find any message in any folder under foo.  The
folder search I posted is non-recursive.  Thus, "folder:foo" specifically
searches the foo maildir (that is, any mail under foo, foo/new, or foo/cur).
 I consider different folders to be, well, different, regardless of nesting,
but what are other people's thoughts?

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> wrote:
>
> I'd be tempted to consider making folder: searches rooted by default.  I
> wonder how often people really want "all folders named misc"?
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