From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995AFC433EF for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236131AbhKVOkT (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:40:19 -0500 Received: from mga17.intel.com ([192.55.52.151]:48731 "EHLO mga17.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235099AbhKVOkQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:40:16 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10175"; a="215507989" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.87,255,1631602800"; d="scan'208";a="215507989" Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga107.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 22 Nov 2021 06:37:09 -0800 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.87,255,1631602800"; d="scan'208";a="674083032" Received: from rmcdonax-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.252.19.217]) by orsmga005-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 22 Nov 2021 06:37:07 -0800 From: Jani Nikula To: Konstantin Ryabitsev , workflows@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lore+lei: part 2, now with IMAP In-Reply-To: Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo References: Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:37:04 +0200 Message-ID: <878rxgntnz.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > For our example query today, we'll do some stargazing. The following will show > us all mail sent by Linus Torvalds: > > f:torvalds AND rt:1.month.ago.. IMHO you're making the prefixes too short at the cost of not being clear or easy to remember for the casual user. f? rt? For example, the same query using Notmuch (which also uses Xapian as the backend) would be: from:torvalds AND date:1month.. I'm not convinced the brevity is all good here, YMMV. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center