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authorGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-04-09 16:40:31 -0700
committerGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-04-09 17:43:58 -0700
commite100871981daeb3bb9a6c8718c95e6044953b57f (patch)
treefc91a754674610c77a91fb2984bd0c4dd73cfac3 /lib/notmuch.h
parentb15a03fafc2e313264519f030e45ea203af508e2 (diff)
lib: Handle "*" as a query string to match all messages.
This seems like a generally useful thing to support, (but the previous support through an empty string was not convenient for some users, (such as the command-line client).
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 88da0789..42682854 100644
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@ notmuch_database_get_all_tags (notmuch_database_t *db);
*
* http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
*
- * As a special case, passing a length-zero string, (that is ""), will
+ * As a special case, passing either a length-zero string, (that is ""),
+ * or a string consisting of a single asterisk (that is "*"), will
* result in a query that returns all messages in the database.
*
* See notmuch_query_set_sort for controlling the order of results.