Re: lei: incorrect quoting on saved searches (was Re: lore+lei: getting started)

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:48:36PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > Hmm... I noticed that when I `lei edit-search` the initial query that was
> > > causing quoting issues, I get the following:
> > > 
> > > 	[lei]
> > > 		q = (dfn:drivers OR dfn:arch OR dfn:Documentation OR dfn:include OR dfn:scripts) AND f:robh@kernel.org
> > > 
> > > So, the extra quotes didn't get added to the config file. Running `lei up` on
> > > that saved search seems to do the right thing, so the erroneous quotes are
> > > only added during the initial `lei q` call.
> > 
> > Right, each entry in lei.q is actually an entry in argv[].
> > So the correct query should look something like:
> 
> So, to be clear here... the following doesn't work because instead of multiple
> query parameters to 'lei q' the single-quoted string becomes a single
> parameter?
> 
> 	lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/all/ -o ~/work/temp/lei/robh-patches \
>     --threads --dedupe=mid \
>     '(dfn:drivers OR dfn:arch OR dfn:Documentation OR dfn:include OR dfn:scripts) AND f:robh@kernel.org'
> 
> Any way to make this work? I find that it's more easily readable than the
> "echo | lei q" version.

I can't think of a way to make it work w/o breaking phrase searches
(or asking users to use both single and double-quotes):

	lei q 's:"a quick brown fox"' # yuck

> For bash users, the following should work as well:
> 
> 	lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/all/ -o ~/work/temp/lei/robh-patches \
>     --threads --dedupe=mid <<< \
>     '(dfn:drivers OR dfn:arch OR dfn:Documentation OR dfn:include OR dfn:scripts) AND f:robh@kernel.org'

Oh, not sure about bash and <<<; but this heredoc should work with any
POSIX sh:

	lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/all/ \
		-o ~/work/temp/lei/robh-patches \
		--threads --dedupe=mid <<'EOM'
(dfn:drivers OR dfn:arch OR dfn:Documentation OR dfn:include OR dfn:scripts)
AND f:robh@kernel.org
EOM

> Suggestion, can -I accept the URL containing the query, so that the command
> becomes:
> 
>     lei q -o ~/mail/foo --threads --dedupe=mid -I \
>     https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3Atorvalds+AND+nq%3Agarbage
> 
> This way we pass both the location of the extindex to query AND the parameters
> we should use, avoiding shell quoting problems?

Maybe, but URI escaping bothers the heck out of me, too.
I guess the heredoc example is actually good...