Tags with spaces

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sat Dec 8 07:21:14 PST 2012


Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Tags with spaces are supported, but your shell will strip away the
> quotes you've used in both examples before notmuch ever sees them.
> You'll need both shell quoting and Xapian quoting in this case.  Try
>   notmuch search -- '-tag:"This has spaces"'
> This should be easier from a front-end, since it will take care of any
> necessary shell quoting.

Note that there are also patches in the works that add a hex encoded
format for notmuch-tag on standard input; so far we have tried to do
that for regular command line arguments, but it's a possibility.

d


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