Hello, Thanks a lot, this makes all clear and notmuch-search-terms(7) point the regex POSIX version you mention. My mistake. By the way, you completely solve my problem that of course no need regular expression has I thought... Bests, Erwan. David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes: > Erwan Hingant <erwan.hingant@mailo.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I have some troubles with regex negative lookahead. When searching >> in >> all directories but one (say inbox), I do the following query: >> >> > notmuch search folder:"/^(?!inbox)/" >> > > As far as I know, lookaheads are not supported by POSIX regex, which is > what notmuch uses. regex(7) is a bit terse, but the relevant section > seems to be > > An atom is a regular expression enclosed in "()" (matching a match for > the regular expression), an empty set of "()" (matching the null > string)(!), a bracket expression (see below), '.' (matching any single > character), '^' (matching the null string at the beginning of a line), > '$' (matching the null string at the end of a line), a '\' followed by > one of the characters "^.[$()|*+?{\" (matching that character taken as > an ordinary character), a '\' followed by any other character(!) > (matching that character taken as an ordinary character, as if the '\' > had not been present(!)), or a single character with no other signifi‐ > cance (matching that character). A '{' followed by a character other > than a digit is an ordinary character, not the beginning of a bound(!). > It is illegal to end an RE with '\'. > > I'm not sure your whole problem, but maybe regex is not the right answer > here. In general they should be a last resort in notmuch, for efficiency > reasons. Does "not folder:inbox" do what you want? _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org