Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> writes: > > In fact, I was hoping in some sort of meta-syntax, to piggyback on. For > instance, if "field:value" is something that is always threated > specially by notmuch, we can use something like "notmuch:threads" (vs, > say, "notmuch:nothreads") and strip it before it hits notmuch. > > If you've no objection to this, I can implement something like it.
(bringing in the upstream list, as this is really an upstream design issue) Currently any unrecognized field:value will be searched for as a phrase [1], and is equivalent to "field value", field.value, field-value, among others. So as long as notmuch: is not a recognized prefix, your scheme will not block any searches. It doesn't seem especially likely that we'll want to use "notmuch:" as a prefix; of course if you were to choose something with "mutt" in the name that would be more nearly a sure thing. [1]: http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
