[PATCH] remove prefixes from `--output={threads, messages}' results
Pieter Praet
pieter at praet.org
Thu Jun 30 10:54:10 PDT 2011
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:24:12 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:19:49 +0200, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> > Alter `do_search_threads()' and `do_search_messages()'
> > to not prepend each result with `thread:' respectively `id:'.
>
> My one concern here is that I've sometimes had a message-id without the
> id prefix and run a command like this:
>
> notmuch search 1309421989-22410-1-git-send-email-pieter at praet.org
>
> And I've gotten confused when I've received no output, (didn't I receive
> that mail? what happened?).
And unfortunately, that's not the only concern.
While this patch removes a mere 10 chars, it has (way too) far-reaching
consequences, not only for the test suite, but for the entire codebase.
Truth be told, this was never intended to be merged. I only sent this
patch to give a ~fair chance to what appears to be the general
consensus, but I much prefer the fix for do_search_tags() [1].
In fact, all the followup patches (the seemingly haphazard reply nesting
is intentional) are intended to be used with the do_search_tags() fix,
which I tentatively consider a much cleaner path.
> But I think this is a separate bug where the right fix is to make any
> search terms with no prefix search through *all* prefixed terms
> generated from email content. This would allow us to also avoid indexing
> some content twice, (currently we store subject, from, and to both with
> a prefix and without a prefix).
Indeed a most desirable (albeit perhaps long-term) goal.
Much as I'd like, I won't be able to make myself useful in that area for
the time being, as the only C I consider myself sufficiently capable of
pushing around is the one ending with "offee" :<
> -Carl
>
> --
> carl.d.worth at intel.com
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Peace
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Pieter
[1] id:"1309422029-22924-1-git-send-email-pieter at praet.org"
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