On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:34:31 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > Quoth Andrei Popescu on Jan 16 at 10:21 pm: > > This is also interesting: > > $ notmuch count 'debian' > > 65888 > > $ notmuch count 'dEbian' > > 65888 > > $ notmuch count 'Debian' > > 65887 > > The first two will match stemmed versions of "debian" such as > "debian's" and "debianed". However, starting a term with a capital > letter suppresses stemming (because it suggests that it's a name, > which you wouldn't want to modify), so your last query matches only > the term "debian". This is probably documented somewhere, though I > don't know where. Interesting. Is this done when adding the terms to the database, or when searching? I presume the latter. How much control does notmuch have over this? The assumption that one wouldn't want to have stemming for names is very much language dependent. [1] BR, Jani. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_noun_cases (the same works for names as well as nouns)