On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:53 -0800, Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry at gmail.com> wrote: > In this case error out when no query is supplied. There seems to be an > infinite-loop casued by i think notmuch_query_search_threads having > an exception: > A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> AND <expression> > A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> AND <expression> > A Xapian exception occurred: Syntax: <expression> AND <expression> > > I'll look into that bug specifically a bit later. > > It might be better to do a usage instead of just throwing an error here?
Definitely. Priit Laes reported the same thing in IRC and I've just committed a patch to give a nice error message: $ ./notmuch search Error: notmuch search requires at least one search term. Thanks for the report! -Carl