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| author |  Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> | 2014-05-02 19:28:38 +0300 |
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| committer |  David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-05-03 05:33:09 +0900 |
| commit | 697d6b5a47dfefa80a93eb6aad54cd9e78b33430 (patch) | |
| tree | 190f9b314a1f013591af706101ff9b22e4079275 /NEWS | |
| parent | 02fabf31df655f492f4f001977cae203445ff73e (diff) | |
NEWS: make it explicit that wildcard matching is no longer supported
Wildcard matching was a feature of the probabilistic prefix, and we no
longer have it for the boolean prefix. Also note that top-level folder
can now be searched.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ General The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages - by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new - behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and - should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users - are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for - details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` - searches. + by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard + matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour + allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it + possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should + lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are + advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details, + and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches. There is a new `path:` search prefix. |