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authorGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-04-09 16:49:20 -0700
committerGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-04-09 17:44:01 -0700
commit74168777cba27ad0e217399de4332ad576bd9398 (patch)
tree2bd2eae397d3a3ebb3281a0a9e44a76d93f39d7d /notmuch.c
parente100871981daeb3bb9a6c8718c95e6044953b57f (diff)
notmuch: Document the new special-case syntax of "*".
This functionality came through a recent addition to the library.
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@@ -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"