Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

Subject: Re: how to search for hyphenated words? (was: how to search for Morse code?)

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:15:40 +0100

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Gregor Zattler


Hi David, notmuch developers,
* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [2019-03-10; 20:22]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>> How would one search for hyphenated words with notmuch?
>>
>
> In special cases, explained in notmuch-search-terms(7), one can use
> regexp searches, which are slower, but don't drop punctuation.

thanks, this works for the subject: field, which helps a lot.

Regexes do not work on the body of messages and I assume they
will not work with the upcoming "body:" field?


Thanks for your attention, Gregor


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