On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:18:51 -0300, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > something like that sounds plausible. Currently the query parser doesn't > handle searches like "tag:bremner/to-fix" very well, because it > helpfully splits at '/' (aiui; maybe somebody else can explain it > better). "notmuch search "tag:notmuch*" does not seem to work either, > so my first idea to kludge around the problem by using > e.g. "notmuchPushed" doesn't seem to work either. A period works: `tag:bremner.to-fix`. That would fit with java/python conventions. Double-colons also seem to work, for what it's worth: `tag:bremner::to-fix`