lib: Handle "*" as a query string to match all messages.

[notmuch] / lib / notmuch.h

diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h
index 88da07898eb20958154d80e5cfb72e054b6a2981..426828542bcf50fc6dfa4f2908ec2c0ac7ba6b57 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/notmuch.h
+++ b/lib/notmuch.h
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@ notmuch_database_get_all_tags (notmuch_database_t *db);
  *
  * http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
  *
- * As a special case, passing a length-zero string, (that is ""), will
+ * As a special case, passing either a length-zero string, (that is ""),
+ * or a string consisting of a single asterisk (that is "*"), will
  * result in a query that returns all messages in the database.
  *
  * See notmuch_query_set_sort for controlling the order of results.