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lib: reword comment about XFOLDER: prefix
I believe the current one is misleading, because in my experiments Xapian did not add : when prefix and term were both upper case. Indeed, it's hard to see how it could, because prefixes are added at a layer above Xapian in our code. See _notmuch_message_add_term for an example. Also try to explain why this is a good idea. As far as I can ascertain, this is more of an issue for a system trying to work with an unknown set of prefixes. Since notmuch has a fixed set of prefixes, and we can hopefully be trusted not to add XGOLD and XGOLDEN as prefixes, it is harder for problems to arise.
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@ -260,10 +260,10 @@ static prefix_t BOOLEAN_PREFIX_EXTERNAL[] = {
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{ "id", "Q" },
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{ "path", "P" },
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/*
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* Without the ":", since this is a multi-letter prefix, Xapian
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* will add a colon itself if the first letter of the path is
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* upper-case ASCII. Including the ":" forces there to always be a
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* colon, which keeps our own logic simpler.
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* Unconditionally add ':' to reduce potential ambiguity with
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* overlapping prefixes and/or terms that start with capital
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* letters. See Xapian document termprefixes.html for related
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* discussion.
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*/
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{ "folder", "XFOLDER:" },
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};
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