Re: nnir notmuch search on specific groups?

["Andreas Goesele" <goesele@hfph.mwn.de>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I went back and looked at my old work on gnus-search (which will land
> someday... sniff), and it looks like I bailed on making this work there,
> too. I vaguely remember that I couldn't even make it work properly on
> the command line, couldn't figure out why "folder" and "path" returned
> the results they did.

I find the results using "path" rather consistent. The only - pleasant -
surprise was "that terms with a common prefix will be implicitly combined
with OR".

> But `nnir-run-notmuch' filters its results same as all the other search
> routines, so I'm not sure why we can't do the filtering on group name,
> after the fact.

This would be a real improvement.

But as notmuch isn't *very* fast with a huge amount of hits I would
prefer a solution which restricts the search beforehand. (Unfortunately I
can't contribute.)

Andreas

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