[MlMt] search body & quoted text

Eric Sharakan esharakan at gmail.com
Fri May 18 23:39:08 EDT 2018


On 18 May 2018, at 5:36, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 May 2018, at 15:57, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Is there a simple way to have toolbar search include both the body 
>> and the quoted text, i.e. the equivalent of 'b s4 or q s4' when 
>> searching for "s4"?  If not, can I request a new search modifier key 
>> to do just that?
>
> I think, in general, I have some users who would prefer an option to 
> make `m` include quoted text. Part of my concern is that the 
> performance of body text search is not very good, but I also like that 
> it's possible to explicitly not search quoted text.
>
> For now, maybe it'll be sufficient if I add that `M` searches like 
> `m`, but includes quoted text?

Yeah, that would work.

>
> (It is, by the way, possible to create your own search syntax. The 
> current search syntax is handled by a ruby script which converts the 
> search string into a MailMate query string.)

Like Max, I might play around with that Ruby script too. ;-)

-Eric


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