[PATCH RFC] index: add body: search query term

William Casarin jb55 at jb55.com
Wed Oct 10 09:36:41 PDT 2018


William Casarin <jb55 at jb55.com> writes:

> I wonder if it's all worth the effort though, since a workaround could
> be:
>
>     notmuch search <query> and not subject:<query>
>
> If it's too annoying to have a body prefix, due to index bloat or
> performance issues, would doing something hacky such as translating
> 'body:<query>' to '<query> and not subject:<query>' make sense?

Thinking about this some more, this is not exactly the same, since this
would explicitly exclude subjects, whereas the body query wouldn't care
what the subject was.

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