For now, don't treat "and not" specially; this gets us back into a
somewhat working state. At some point, we probably _do_ want to
special-case and_not though (since Xapian supports it).
mu's query parser is the piece of software that turns your queries
into something the Xapian database can understand. So, if you query
"maildir:/inbox and subject:bla" this must be translated into a
Xapian::Query object which will retrieve the sought after messages.
Since mu's beginning, almost a decade ago, this parser was based on
Xapian's default Xapian::QueryParser. It works okay, but wasn't really
designed for the mu use-case, and had a bit of trouble with anything
that's not A..Z (think: spaces, special characters, unicode etc.).
Over the years, mu added quite a bit of pre-processing trickery to
deal with that. Still, there were corner cases and bugs that were
practically unfixable.
The solution to all of this is to have a custom query processor that
replaces Xapian's, and write it from the ground up to deal with the
special characters etc. I wrote one, as part of my "future, post-1.0
mu" reseach project, and I have now backported it to the mu 0.9.19.
From a technical perspective, this is a major cleanup, and allows us
to get rid of much of the fragile preprocessing both for indexing and
querying. From and end-user perspective this (hopefully) means that
many of the little parsing issues are gone, and it opens the way for
some new features.
From an end-user perspective:
- better support for special characters.
- regexp search! yes, you can now search for regular expressions, e.g.
subject:/h.ll?o/
will find subjects with hallo, hello, halo, philosophy, ...
As you can imagine, this can be a _heavy_ operation on the database,
and might take quite a bit longer than a normal query; but it can be
quite useful.
When you have multiple mu home directories, e.g. for the use case
detailed in my "Changing mu4e-{maildir,mu-home} from a context hook"
post to the mailing list it's quite inconvenient to have to hammer out
"mu --muhome=.. find .." every time you want to run some ad-hoc
command.
This allows me to set up a screen session where I do searches in mu
directory A in some screen panes, and searches in directory B in
others.
I initially called this MU_MUHOME but then I noticed that the perl
plugin has MUP_MU_HOME for analogous functionality, so I'm just
following its example.
The code I'm adding in mu-util.c is just a copy/paste & adjustment of
the same sort of already tested functionality in
mu_util_guess_maildir() just a few lines earlier.
If not, when the session of mu is killed, these child processes are also
killed. This scenario shows up when using mu4e: a PDF attachment, for
example, is opened by Evince, but as soon as Emacs exits, Evince is also
killed.
clear_links as used for the --clear-links option had some broken
filename generation, causing garbage data at the end.
Clean up this old code, and fix this problem as a side-effect.
Fixes issue #951.
mu_util_fputs_encode was aborting on behalf of the stack-guard on
OpenBSD (seemingly only when compile with optimization). It appears as
if the root cause of this was a differences in sizes of the parameters
to g_locale_from_utf8. Fix this.
The callbacks for the contacts functions should return TRUE (or be
terminated early), but were void. Seems on Linux this usually still
worked, not so on OpenBSD at least (unit test broke). So, fix this.
Can't say I fully understand what's going on, but it seems gpg-before-2
has some trouble with its agent, at least when using
gnome-session (which stopped using gnome-keyring as a gpg-agent since
Fedora 23 at least).
Sanity seems to be restored when preferring gpg2 instead. "gpg" is used
when gpg2 isn't there; and there's the MU_GPG_PATH env variable to
override all of that.
Add an option --lazy-check to ignore any directories that don't have
their ctime changed since the last indexing operation.
There are a few corner-cases (such as editing a message outside mu's
control) where this might miss a change, but apart from that, makes
indexing in for a maildir (and its sub-maildirs) almost a no-op if there
were no changes.
