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@@ -472,9 +472,11 @@ labelled Sent that shows the whole Maildir. (`src/searchterm.h`), and that is what stops five surfaces growing five quoting rules.** It holds no widget, so the grammar is tested without a painter or a web engine. Two of its rules are load-bearing rather than cosmetic. `quote()` -escapes backslashes BEFORE quotes, since the other order escapes the -backslashes it just added; it truncates before escaping, so a cut cannot land -mid-escape. And `extend()` parenthesises BOTH sides, because the query bar can +DOUBLES an embedded quote, because notmuch has no backslash escape: a +backslash-escaped quote ends the term, and a selection holding +`x \" or tag:inbox or id:"` walked out of a `tag:nomatch and` scope and matched +every message, measured, where the doubled form matched none. It truncates +before doubling, so a cut cannot land mid-pair. And `extend()` parenthesises BOTH sides, because the query bar can hold a hand-written disjunction and `a or b AND c` binds as `a or (b AND c)`, which widens a search the user asked to narrow, reporting nothing. This is the same trap the `post-new` hook handles when it scopes a rule with `tag:new`. |