Re: Two perceived query language imbalances

Subject: Re: Two perceived query language imbalances

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:53:47 -0300

To: Michael J Gruber, Alexander Adolf, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu> writes:

>
> In that case, I suggest that `notmuch search --output=messages` outputs
> message ids in the form `mid:...`, as well. Users can discover
> `--output=messages` from command completion and could learn the "right"
> search prefix from the command output.
>

In fact that's the kind of thing where we did not want to change the
function of id:. There is some weird corner cases because /foo/ is
(probably) a valid message-id.
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