On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:24:44 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> Then, I'd like to have a new, succinct and explicit syntax to indicate a
> search that should return all results. For example, we could use '*' but
> that has the issue that it would need escaping from the shell. But the
> idea would be to be able to run:
> 
> 	notmuch count '*'
> 
> to count everything. Anyone have a better option for what the
> give-me-everything syntax should be?

notmuch count ''

The search patterns limit the matched messages/folders. An empty pattern
should match everything.

dme.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org