Re: doc: notmuch help search-terms, boolean operators

Subject: Re: doc: notmuch help search-terms, boolean operators

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:11:26 -0700

To: Carl Worth, Florian Friesdorf, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: Olly Betts

From: Jameson Graef Rollins


On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:01:17 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> > Complete list of boolean operators in order of precedence:
> > - NOT
> > - AND
> > - XOR
> > - OR
> > 
> > Is this correct? If yes, I would extend the manpage accordingly.
> 
> Currently, notmuch doesn't implement this behavior but relies on
> Xapian's query parser to do so. As such, I'd really prefer to see
> Xapian's documentation augmented here before we start documenting
> any particular behavior in notmuch.

It would be nice if the notmuch documentation did mention the available
operators, though.  For instance, I had no idea that XOR was a supported
operator.

jamie.
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