search engine
Reported by Thibaud | July 7th, 2011 @ 03:03 PM
I generally search by using two fields:
From or To, and
Unquoted Body Text.
- When I fill in the first field and before filling in the
second, a first search is processed and returns some results. The
is nice.
- However, after I fill in the second field, due to the duration of the search, I have the feeling that the search is processed among all the messages of the databases and not only the subset obtained in 1. Is it the case?
Second point: why only Unquoted Body Text and Quoted Body Text.
If I don't remember if I have quoted the text or not, I can miss
the result (or try both). Wouldn't it be better to have a menu like
the following for the search filters?
Body Text
-> All -> Unquoted -> Quoted
Comments and changes to this ticket
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benny July 13th, 2011 @ 02:20 PM
- State changed from “new” to “closed”
Answer to question in item 2: Yes, this is a side-effect of the
set-oriented query-system. (This may change slightly in the future due
to some related space/time optimizations, but this is still uncertain.)Note that it would be different if you had, e.g., first used “Find
Messages ▸ From or To “xyz”” and then done a search for unquoted
body text. Internally, the two cases would differ like this (simplified
a bit):$Msgs.filter(from = 'xyz' or to = 'xyz' or #unquoted ~ 'abc') $Msgs.filter(from = 'xyz' or to = 'xyz').filter(#unquoted ~ 'abc')With regard to the second point: I find that I mostly want to find the
message which originally used the word I am searching for and not any
replies or forwards with the same word (in which it is quoted), but it
is also a question of efficiency. It is simply slower to search both and
therefore I do not encourage it. When search speed (of unquoted/quoted
text) has been improved then I may change this to make it easier. I like
your suggestion for a single Body Text item with options.[state:closed]
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