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From: Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
To: Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>
Cc: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] searches
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:59:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin4Zz4RkFrtZOt1_xpx-8mPAuzhGY-nwJ8hgbNT@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281018239-sup-4803@sam.mediasupervision.de>

On 6 August 2010 00:25, Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de> wrote:
> I fell into these traps as well (there was a thread in this list two
> months ago, search for this message: 1276181871-sup-2536@zyrg.net).
>
> I started to rewrite the page SearchingMail in the Wiki:
> http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?SearchingMail
>
> The information on that page should be correct, but certainly is not
> complete. Neither is it easy to grok.
>
> As a start, the basic query language is described in
> http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html.
>
>
> Some stumbling points about searching in Sup:
>
> - By default, query terms are combined with AND
> - Exception: Query terms within the same field type are combined as OR
>
> I.e. a search for "label:ruby-talk subject:\[ANN\]" (without the
> quotes!) is equivalent to "label:ruby-talk AND subject:\[ANN\]".
>
> In contrast, the search "subject:apples subject:oranges" is equivalent
> to "subject:apples OR subject:oranges"!

Ok, thanks for the information.

How do I search for all messages not containing a label? I tried:

not label:mylabel
! label:mylabel
~label:mylabel
-label:mylabel

The first finds no results. The rest are the same as "label:mylabel".

What am I doing wrong here?

What do the above searchs really do?
-- 
Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-09  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-05  2:14 Brian May
2010-08-05 13:49 ` John Bent
2010-08-05 14:25   ` Gregor Hoffleit
2010-08-09  5:59     ` Brian May [this message]
2010-08-09 20:19       ` Marc Hartstein
2010-08-05 14:35 ` Mark Alexander

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