Thread subqueries

[Tomi Ollila]

On Fri, May 11 2018, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On Fri 2018-05-11 07:15:41 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>>
>>> 0 dkg at alice:~$ notmuch count 'thread:{date:1month..now tag:dkg}'
>>> notmuch count: A Xapian exception occurred
>>> A Xapian exception occurred parsing query: missing } in '{date:1month..now'
>>> Query string was: thread:{date:1month..now tag:dkg}
>>> 1 dkg at alice:~$ 
>>
>> Pretty sure what you want here is
>>
>>         $ notmuch count 'thread:"{date:1month..now tag:dkg}"'

question: how does these differ (processing-wise):

         $ notmuch count  'thread:"date:1month..now tag:dkg"'
         $ notmuch count  'thread:{date:1month..now tag:dkg}'
         $ notmuch count 'thread:"{date:1month..now tag:dkg}"'

understanding the reasons behind these might help to use these in desired
ways (or we could just say use "{...}" to get this to work).

Tomi

> Thanks, yes, that's it.  I still find the quoting/assembling rules for
> notmuch queries non-intuitive, but maybe one day i'll wrap my head
> around them some day.  I certainly don't have any specific suggestions
> for improvement.
>
> This is a really useful feature, much appreciated!
>
>         --dkg