Re: regex search in the body

Subject: Re: regex search in the body

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:18:10 +0200

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: Peter Münster


On Wed, Apr 02 2025, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> I can't even find the form `prefix*` in the search term documentation
> (just `*`).

Sorry, instead of "prefix*" I should have written
"first-part-of-search-term*" or just "wildc*".


> SInce it's "a little bit of glob but not really" and we have regex
> searches now I would advocate for turning off `prefix*`

IMHO the wildcard search is very useful, because it’s very fast.
I would use regex searches only when really needed.

-- 
           Peter

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