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authorGravatar Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>2013-08-17 15:11:33 +0300
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2013-08-24 11:44:52 +0200
commit01f550803c4cf7bcb4a3df43a56163767c170649 (patch)
treebd49b6700fe206906d4150db17c6a7653d7e795d /man
parentf45c9f831fcd2466d8a7376efe296ffb15b4f824 (diff)
man: clarify folder: prefix regarding duplicate files
The results for folder: prefix are a source of recurring confusion.
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diff --git a/man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7 b/man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7
index 314efa89..b5eb1959 100644
--- a/man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7
+++ b/man/man7/notmuch-search-terms.7
@@ -102,9 +102,11 @@ thread ID values can be seen in the first column of output from
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.
+contained within particular directories within the mail store. If the
+same email message has multiple message files associated with it, it's
+sufficient for a match that at least one of the files is contained
+within a matching directory. Only the directory components below the
+top-level mail database path are available to be searched.
The
.B date: