Peter Münster <pm@a16n.net> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 20 2025, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> I don't know anything about the mu implementation of regex search, maybe
>> they have some clever idea I haven't thought of.
>
> Mu implements the regular-expression search by matching the user's
> regular expression against all "terms" (words or phrases) that are in
> the database for a given field. (from "man mu-query")
>

Oh right, notmuch actually does that for things like tags. So the
problem you are trying to solve is not getting enough matches with a
word search? Can you give me an example of the kind of search you are
trying to do?  I had the impression that usually notmuch users want to
use regexes to match things like punctuation that is discarded by term
search.
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