Hi Gio,
Sorry for my late reply. I have been travelling the last week and am just catching up on all my email. > When searching for "subject:" it would be useful to have a speficic > message number and subject along with (or in place of) the bug title. This is actually difficult to do because of the way we index issues as Xapian "documents". First, a quick Xapian primer. Xapian has a bunch of documents each associated with a set of terms. When a search query comes in, Xapian decomposes the query into a list of terms and retrieves documents that match those terms. In our case, we index entire issues as Xapian documents; we don't index each individual email message as its own Xapian document. This means that an issue is the smallest unit we can address. We cannot address each individual email message. So, localizing a subject to a specific email message is difficult. Maybe what you are looking for is some context in the search results to know why that particular search result was produced. This can be done by displaying a snippet of text from the issue with the search terms highlighted. For a working demo of what I mean, see for example, https://issues.genenetwork.org/search?query=database&type=all . Notice how the search term "database" is highlighted in the search results. This is relatively easy to do with Xapian, and indeed I do plan to implement this at some point. WDYT? Would this meet your needs? Regards, Arun
