Partial words on notmuch search?
Austin Clements
amdragon at MIT.EDU
Mon Jan 16 18:34:31 PST 2012
Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm:
> This is also interesting:
> $ notmuch count 'debian'
> 65888
> $ notmuch count 'dEbian'
> 65888
> $ notmuch count 'Debian'
> 65887
The first two will match stemmed versions of "debian" such as
"debian's" and "debianed". However, starting a term with a capital
letter suppresses stemming (because it suggests that it's a name,
which you wouldn't want to modify), so your last query matches only
the term "debian". This is probably documented somewhere, though I
don't know where.
> Where can I read more about this? (except the source :)
Most of this is in the Xapian query syntax document you found. Really
we ought to beef-up Notmuch's query syntax documentation.
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