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authorGravatar Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>2013-05-11 20:50:06 +0100
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2013-05-12 07:44:42 -0300
commitc3ed77068310122d98f6d2c60f5a0d3a29d89606 (patch)
treeff90bbb8c837938b64efb991a1473b78fac13a3f /man
parentea0e75702d3bb4a45d271f9ba23bc8fd6c21cb86 (diff)
man: clarify search --exclude=flag
Improve the description of the search --exclude=flag option, using text taken from the commit that introduced the option.
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diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 59e8f341..da2f1dd1 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -147,9 +147,11 @@ results. Excluded messages are still marked in the relevant outputs.
.B flag
only has an effect when
-.B --output=summary
-In this case all matching threads are returned but the "match count"
-is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the thread.
+.BR --output=summary .
+The output is almost identical to
+.BR false ,
+but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the
+thread, rather than the number of matching messages.
.RE
.SH EXIT STATUS