-.TH NOTMUCH-SEARCH 1 2013-02-17 "Notmuch 0.15.2"
+.TH NOTMUCH-SEARCH 1 2013-07-28 "Notmuch 0.16"
.SH NAME
notmuch-search \- search for messages matching the given search terms
.SH SYNOPSIS
.RS 4
.TP 4
-.BR \-\-exclude=(true|false|flag)
+.BR \-\-exclude=(true|false|all|flag)
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.
.BR true ,
prevents excluded messages from matching the search terms.
+.B all
+additionally prevents excluded messages from appearing in displayed
+results, in effect behaving as though the excluded messages do not exist.
+
.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
-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
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
-\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
+\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5),
+\fBnotmuch-insert\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
\fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1),
\fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),
\fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)