Xapian discuss - Dec 2023 - Advanced search with wildcard using notmuch for mutt

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 06:39:43AM -0500, David Bremner
wrote:
> I guess the restriction is based on what is easy to do efficiently with
> the Xapian database (find prefixes).  If I remember correctly there was
> some work in progress to support leading wildcards in Xapian. I can't
> find relevant discussion now, but I CC'ed the Xapian list in case
> someone remembers that.
The development version of Xapian supports both `*` and `?` glob-style
wildcards in any position.

You can enable them for the QueryParser using FLAG_WILDCARD_MULTI,
FLAG_WILDCARD_SINGLE or FLAG_WILDCARD_GLOB (the last one is just the
first two combined).

Cheers,
    Olly

Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> writes:
> The development version of Xapian supports both `*` and `?` glob-style
> wildcards in any position.
>
> You can enable them for the QueryParser using FLAG_WILDCARD_MULTI,
> FLAG_WILDCARD_SINGLE or FLAG_WILDCARD_GLOB (the last one is just the
> first two combined).
I see FLAG_FUZZY as well, supporting edit distance. Sounds like release
1.5 will be a crowd pleaser ;)

d