On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:58 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> wrote:

> That resulted in an error for me:
> 
> $ notmuch search not tag:inbox
> A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> NOT <expression>
> A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> NOT <expression>

Yeah, NOT isn't a unary operator in xapian; it's a binary operator that
means 'AND NOT'. The Xapian docs say that if you set the FLAG_PURE_NOT
flag, you'll get the unary behaviour, but I haven't tried that.

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