Re: [Evolution] free entry field in search

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 16:33 +0200, @web.de wrote:
> > If this is about "Free Form expression", then see
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-searching.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > andre
> But regarding my example, there is no special tag given to search for
> (e.g. from:blabla).

        Hi,
it's there, in exactly the same form as you wrote it:

   from:blabla

or in the short form:

   f:blabla

The above page says near the top:

   Advanced users can combine numerous conditions by using the Free
   form expression syntax.

which references the list of available options and how to influence the
behavior:

   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550796#c10

which names "from/f" at the first line. I suppose you found it there,
which may eventually mean the search result is not accurate for you for
some reason. Yous 3.28.5 is too old though, the current stable series
is 3.36.x, with a planned 3.36.4 release for this Friday.

I guess it would be nice to have some examples of the free form search
expressions for common things, thus the users do not need to make them
up on their own from the techy description (it's easier to learn from
the examples, at least for me), but I didn't went that far yet. Maybe
if there is a list of some common real life queries it could be done.
        Bye,
        Milan