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| author |  Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2011-01-15 14:18:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2011-01-15 15:37:43 -0800 |
| commit | 3863e88e965f37e316de90978071c985fb4e5701 (patch) | |
| tree | f4f7670405918c695e13674b1cef279e47c884e5 | |
| parent | 99cfa2703080c2474e6b8aec0cae86135ae23f1d (diff) | |
Add documentation for the recently added folder-based searching.
Augmenting both the builtin help as well as the manual page.
| -rw-r--r-- | notmuch.1 | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | notmuch.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -526,6 +526,8 @@ terms to match against specific portions of an email, (where thread:<thread-id> + folder:<directory-path> + The .B from: prefix is used to match the name or address of the sender of an email @@ -569,6 +571,13 @@ internally by notmuch (and do not appear in email messages). These thread ID values can be seen in the first column of output from .B "notmuch search" +The +.B folder: +prefix can be used to search for email message files that are +contained within particular directories within the mail store. Only +the directory components below the top-level mail database path are +available to be searched. + In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with Boolean operators ( .BR and ", " or ", " not @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static const char search_terms_help[] = "\t\ttag:<tag> (or is:<tag>)\n" "\t\tid:<message-id>\n" "\t\tthread:<thread-id>\n" + "\t\tfolder:<directory-path>\n" "\n" "\tThe from: prefix is used to match the name or address of\n" "\tthe sender of an email message.\n" @@ -82,6 +83,11 @@ static const char search_terms_help[] = "\tmessages). These thread ID values can be seen in the first\n" "\tcolumn of output from \"notmuch search\".\n" "\n" + "\tThe folder: prefix can be used to search for email message\n" + "\tfiles that are contained within particular directories within\n" + "\tthe mail store. Only the directory components below the top-level\n" + "\tmail database path are available to be searched.\n" + "\n" "\tIn addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be\n" "\tcombined with Boolean operators (\"and\", \"or\", \"not\", etc.).\n" "\tEach term in the query will be implicitly connected by a\n" |