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author | Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> | 2014-02-08 23:14:25 +0200 |
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committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-03-11 19:51:22 -0300 |
commit | 5348d1987cc34381aff94f64c577984de5788e6a (patch) | |
tree | 61bad1a930cbbd51dea374faa4e0bff0297add2e /doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst | |
parent | 0969c8be09deb9b7d880d573c7410b2b5e5420e0 (diff) |
man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files confusion
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst index 7ac6c68e..90160f21 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst @@ -64,8 +64,13 @@ Supported options for **search** include (--format=json), or as an S-Expression list (--format=sexp). Note that each message may have multiple filenames - associated with it. All of them are included in the output, - unless limited with the --duplicate=N option. + associated with it. All of them are included in the output + (unless limited with the --duplicate=N option). This may + be particularly confusing for **folder:** or **path:** + searches in a specified directory, as the messages may + have duplicates in other directories that are included in + the output, although these files alone would not match the + search. **tags** Output all tags that appear on any message matching the |