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| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 15 |
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diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 index d3391f83..59e8f341 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 @@ -132,8 +132,19 @@ Limit the number of displayed results to N. .TP 4 .BR \-\-exclude=(true|false|flag) -Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude from the -search results (the default) or not. The extra option +A message is called "excluded" if it matches at least one tag in +search.tag_exclude that does not appear explicitly in the search terms. +This option specifies whether to omit excluded messages in the search +process. + +The default value, +.BR true , +prevents excluded messages from matching the search terms. + +.B false +allows excluded messages to match search terms and appear in displayed +results. Excluded messages are still marked in the relevant outputs. + .B flag only has an effect when .B --output=summary |