On 2010-04-14, Jason White wrote: > > Also add a --sort=unsorted command line option to notmuch search to test > > this. > > Does this provide relevance-ranked search results? I think relevance ranking > is the Xapian default if a sort order isn't specified.
Yes, by default it is using sort_by_relevance, so "unsorted" implies just that. (in fact, a previous incarnation of this patch called it --sort=relevance) However, given that many of our terms, are boolean, relevance only really comes into play when including terms within the body of a message. (and *I* have not found the relevance sorting to be much useful yet when I cared about some sort order, but that might just be me). > It would be useful to be able to obtain a relevance-ranked list of messages or > threads that satisfy a query. I would be happy to have it called --sort=relevance too, the unsorted points out potential performance improvements a bit better, IMHO (although they seem to be really small with a warm cache). Sebastian _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch