On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > Subject: notmuch: Add "maildir:" search option > > > > The current "folder:" search terms are near useless when you have > > recursive folders, introduce a boolean "maildir:" search term to > > exactly match the maildir folder. > > Hi Peter - > > Per some discussion on IRC about the usefulness of the current "folder:" > prefix, I went ahead and sent patches to make "folder:" a boolean prefix > [1]. It's not the same as your "maildir:" implementation, but I believe > you could use it to achieve the things you want with that. In > particular, my proposed "folder:" prefix is the literal path from > maildir root, and does not make any assumptions about maildir - i.e. it > requires the final cur/new too. (That can be useful for some mutt users > who need the cur/new distinction.) > > I am not opposed to adding another prefix like "maildir:" that does make > assumptions on the mail storage and transformations on the path, but I > do think it would be less important with the boolean "folder:" in place. Right, sorry for disappearing; I failed to find time to finish the patch. I did actually modify it do loose the /new,/cur bits and I think I addressed all other comments, including the file removal part. Where I got 'stuck' was writing test cases. Anyway, I'll try and have a look at the recent notmuch.git and see if it does what I'd like it to. Thanks for getting back to me. ~ Peter