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| author | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2021-08-24 08:17:19 -0700 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2021-09-04 17:07:19 -0700 |
| commit | f83cd2a05ac84ef4bf28f75c763b0688df3f4201 (patch) | |
| tree | 499f73405bac25d3a786d755b827a59500a63401 /doc | |
| parent | a2785c3919c56a370a7f860f4eeb93846f4a1e63 (diff) | |
lib/parse-sexp: support and, not, and or.
All operations and (Xapian) fields will eventually have an entry in
the prefixes table. The flags field is just a placeholder for now, but
will eventually distinguish between various kinds of prefixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst index d177934d..0304759e 100644 --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst @@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ subqueries. (for most fields) or *or*. See :any:`fields` for more information. ``(`` *operator* |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` - Combine queries |q1| to |qn|. See :any:`operators` for more information. + Combine queries |q1| to |qn|. Currently supported operators are + ``and``, ``or``, and ``not``. ``(not`` |q1| ... |qn| ``)`` is equivalent + to ``(and (not`` |q1| ``) ... (not`` |qn| ``))``. ``(`` *modifier* |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` Combine queries |q1| to |qn|, and reinterpret the result (e.g. as a regular expression). @@ -62,11 +64,6 @@ subqueries. FIELDS `````` -.. _operators: - -OPERATORS -````````` - .. _modifiers: MODIFIERS @@ -82,6 +79,13 @@ EXAMPLES Match all messages containing "added", but also those containing "add", "additional", "Additional", "adds", etc... via stemming. +``(and Bob Marley)`` + Match messages containing words "Bob" and "Marley", or their stems + The words need not be adjacent. + +``(not Bob Marley)`` + Match messages containing neither "Bob" nor "Marley", nor their stems, + .. |q1| replace:: :math:`q_1` .. |q2| replace:: :math:`q_2` .. |qn| replace:: :math:`q_n` |