Michael J Gruber <[email protected]> writes: > > I can't even find the form `prefix*` in the search term documentation > (just `*`). SInce it's "a little bit of glob but not really" and we > have regex searches now I would advocate for turning off `prefix*` > because it's just confusing ("Oh, globbing works!" - "No, it > doesn't.") and unsystematic (`*suffix` ...). >
Unfortunately there are still a few places that Xapian wildcards (aka '*') work that regexps do not, even in sexp-queries. So this would be a small loss in functionality. Maybe the answer is to enable regexp queries more places, I'm not sure. d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
