search for squre bracket
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Wed Dec 7 06:22:46 PST 2016
Jian Fan <abemud at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to search
>
> subject:[Release]
>
> i.e. emails whose subject is like:
>
> [Release] fix a bug
>
> Notmuch seems to return those and many other emails. I tried to escape,
> quote and nothing seems working.
by default xapian (and hence notmuch) uses a word based search that
essentially ignored punctation.
There is a patch to support (slower) regular expression search
id:20161114214651.19770-1-david at tethera.net
http://mid.tethera.net/notmuch/20161114214651.19770-1-david@tethera.net/
If you help test it, maybe it will be merged into notmuch.
d
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