[PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

2014-01-31 Thread Rob Browning
Austin Clements writes: > However, it seems like this is overloading one prefix for two > meanings. Oh, and I agree here. I think that ideally, there would be at least one very-literal way to identify a specific directory (or tree, perhaps via **), and then some other less-precise, but more fri

[PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

2014-01-31 Thread Rob Browning
Austin Clements writes: > folder: could work the way I suggested (simply the path to the file, > with {cur,new} stripped off). Hmm, so would notmuch try to guess whether or not it's dealing with a maildir++ tree, and if so convert folder:foo to a search of .foo, and/or folder:foo/bar to .foo.bar

Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

2014-01-31 Thread Rob Browning
Austin Clements writes: > However, it seems like this is overloading one prefix for two > meanings. Oh, and I agree here. I think that ideally, there would be at least one very-literal way to identify a specific directory (or tree, perhaps via **), and then some other less-precise, but more fri

Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

2014-01-31 Thread Rob Browning
Austin Clements writes: > folder: could work the way I suggested (simply the path to the file, > with {cur,new} stripped off). Hmm, so would notmuch try to guess whether or not it's dealing with a maildir++ tree, and if so convert folder:foo to a search of .foo, and/or folder:foo/bar to .foo.bar