Re: [PATCH] NEWS: folder:, path:, and database upgrade

Subject: Re: [PATCH] NEWS: folder:, path:, and database upgrade

Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 16:01:59 +0100

To: Mark Walters, Jani Nikula, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Edmondson


On Fri, May 02 2014, Mark Walters wrote:
> I don't like the wildcard bit as an important part of the change was the
> removal of stemming. Perhaps keep exact in the headline and in the body
> say explicitly what the changes are no stemming, no wildcards (except
> globbing), etc (maybe case sensitivity is different?)

I'm not too upset about exactly what it says.

I wonder how many users care about "the removal of stemming" as opposed
to "wildcards no longer work", though :-)

> On Thu, 01 May 2014, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 27 2014, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>> +The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
>>
>> I think that it would be clearer to say:
>>
>>   The `folder:` search prefix no longer supports wildcard matching
>>
>> (Or something like that.)
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