[PATCH 2/2] lib: use phrase search for anything not ending in '*'

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Sep 30 09:27:55 PDT 2018


Anything that does not look like a wildcard should be safe to
quote. This should fix the problem searching for xapian keywords.
---
 lib/regexp-fields.cc      | 2 +-
 test/T650-regexp-query.sh | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/regexp-fields.cc b/lib/regexp-fields.cc
index 084bc8c0..52f30d82 100644
--- a/lib/regexp-fields.cc
+++ b/lib/regexp-fields.cc
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ RegexpFieldProcessor::operator() (const std::string & str)
 	     * phrase parsing, when possible */
 	    std::string query_str;
 
-	    if (str.find (' ') != std::string::npos)
+	    if (*str.rbegin () != '*' || str.find (' ') != std::string::npos)
 		query_str = '"' + str + '"';
 	    else
 		query_str = str;
diff --git a/test/T650-regexp-query.sh b/test/T650-regexp-query.sh
index 7448c024..181e3856 100755
--- a/test/T650-regexp-query.sh
+++ b/test/T650-regexp-query.sh
@@ -81,12 +81,10 @@ add_message '[from]="and"' '[subject]="and-and-and"'
 printf "id:$gen_msg_id\n" > EXPECTED
 
 test_begin_subtest "quoted xapian keyword search for from:"
-test_subtest_known_broken
 notmuch search --output=messages 'from:"and"' > OUTPUT
 test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
 
 test_begin_subtest "quoted xapian keyword search for subject:"
-test_subtest_known_broken
 notmuch search --output=messages 'subject:"and-and-and"' > OUTPUT
 test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
 
-- 
2.19.0



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