Re: IMAP server side search integration
On 2005-09-05 11:14:21 +0100, James Raftery wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:53:09AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > 3. A modifier for ~b..., eg $~b or $~h, indicating that the parameters
> > are substrings rather than regular expressions. Would people
> > actually remember to use it or is it just a nuisance?
>
> This would be my preference.
Me too. If need be, the modifier could be implicit when some new
option is on.
> How difficult would it be to silently use server-side substring
> searching if the user-supplied search pattern doesn't contain any
> regexp metacharacters ? In that case, the search modifier above
> would only be needed to force the search pattern to be evaluated as
> a substring.
Even if there are no metacharacters, is the behavior exactly the same?
I mainly think about attachment decoding and non-ASCII characters.
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