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-rw-r--r--lib/notmuch.h3
-rw-r--r--lib/query.cc8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 88da078..4268285 100644
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@ notmuch_database_get_all_tags (notmuch_database_t *db);
*
* http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
*
- * As a special case, passing a length-zero string, (that is ""), will
+ * As a special case, passing either a length-zero string, (that is ""),
+ * or a string consisting of a single asterisk (that is "*"), will
* result in a query that returns all messages in the database.
*
* See notmuch_query_set_sort for controlling the order of results.
diff --git a/lib/query.cc b/lib/query.cc
index 9266d35..10f8dc8 100644
--- a/lib/query.cc
+++ b/lib/query.cc
@@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ notmuch_query_search_messages (notmuch_query_t *query)
Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_WILDCARD |
Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_PURE_NOT);
- if (strcmp (query_string, "") == 0) {
+ if (strcmp (query_string, "") == 0 ||
+ strcmp (query_string, "*") == 0)
+ {
final_query = mail_query;
} else {
string_query = notmuch->query_parser->
@@ -333,7 +335,9 @@ notmuch_query_count_messages (notmuch_query_t *query)
Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_WILDCARD |
Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_PURE_NOT);
- if (strcmp (query_string, "") == 0) {
+ if (strcmp (query_string, "") == 0 ||
+ strcmp (query_string, "*") == 0)
+ {
final_query = mail_query;
} else {
string_query = notmuch->query_parser->