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author | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2010-04-09 16:49:20 -0700 |
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committer | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2010-04-09 17:44:01 -0700 |
commit | 74168777cba27ad0e217399de4332ad576bd9398 (patch) | |
tree | 2bd2eae397d3a3ebb3281a0a9e44a76d93f39d7d | |
parent | e100871981daeb3bb9a6c8718c95e6044953b57f (diff) |
notmuch: Document the new special-case syntax of "*".
This functionality came through a recent addition to the library.
-rw-r--r-- | notmuch.1 | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | notmuch.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ which will match all messages that contain all of the given terms/phrases in the body, the subject, or any of the sender or recipient headers. +As a special case, a search string consisting of exactly a single +asterisk ("*") will match all messages. + In addition to free text, the following prefixes can be used to force terms to match against specific portions of an email, (where <brackets> indicate user-supplied values): @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ static const char search_terms_help[] = "\tthe given terms/phrases in the body, the subject, or any of\n" "\tthe sender or recipient headers.\n" "\n" + "\tAs a special case, a search string consisting of exactly a\n" + "\tsingle asterisk (\"*\") will match all messages.\n" + "\n" "\tIn addition to free text, the following prefixes can be used\n" "\tto force terms to match against specific portions of an email,\n" "\t(where <brackets> indicate user-supplied values):\n" |