On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 09:37, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Pretty sure public-inbox just uses mairix-style queries here, so it's really an "vi vs. emacs" kind of discussion. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/mairix.1.html -K
