man: show: update man page for entire-thread and json.

[notmuch] / man / man1 / notmuch-show.1

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.TH NOTMUCH-SHOW 1 2012-03-18 "Notmuch 0.12~rc2"
+.TH NOTMUCH-SHOW 1 2012-06-01 "Notmuch 0.13.2"
 .SH NAME
-notmuch-show \- Show messages matching the given search terms.
+notmuch-show \- show messages matching the given search terms
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 
 .B notmuch show
@@ -24,11 +24,14 @@ Supported options for
 include
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
-.B \-\-entire\-thread
+.B \-\-entire\-thread=(true|false)
 
-By default only those messages that match the search terms will be
-displayed. With this option, all messages in the same thread as any
-matched message will be displayed.
+If true,
+.B notmuch show
+outputs all messages in the thread of any message matching the search
+terms; if false, it outputs only the matching messages. For
+.B --format=json
+this defaults to true.  For other formats, this defaults to false.
 .RE
 
 .RS 4
@@ -55,11 +58,13 @@ be nested.
 The output is formatted with Javascript Object Notation (JSON). This
 format is more robust than the text format for automated
 processing. The nested structure of multipart MIME messages is
-reflected in nested JSON output. JSON output always includes all
-messages in a matching thread; in effect
+reflected in nested JSON output. By default JSON output includes all
+messages in a matching thread; that is, by default,
 .B \-\-format=json
-implies
-.B \-\-entire\-thread
+sets
+.B "\-\-entire\-thread"
+The caller can disable this behaviour by setting
+.B \-\-entire\-thread=false
 
 .RE
 .RS 4
@@ -130,14 +135,42 @@ Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected content
 (ie. "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryption will be
 reported (currently only supported with --format=json) and the
 multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted
-content.
+content.  Implies --verify.
+.RE
+
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.BR \-\-exclude=(true|false)
+
+Specify whether to omit threads only matching search.tag_exclude from
+the search results (the default) or not. In either case the excluded
+message will be marked with the exclude flag (except when output=mbox
+when there is nowhere to put the flag).
+
+If --entire-thread is specified then complete threads are returned
+regardless (with the excluded flag being set when appropriate) but
+threads that only match in an excluded message are not returned when
+.B --exclude=true.
+
+The default is
+.B --exclude=true.
+
 .RE
 
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
-.B \-\-no-exclude
+.B \-\-body=(true|false)
 
-Do not exclude the messages matching search.exclude_tags in the config file.
+If true (the default)
+.B notmuch show
+includes the bodies of the messages in the output; if false,
+bodies are omitted.
+.B --body=false
+is only implemented for the json format and it is incompatible with
+.B --part > 0.
+
+This is useful if the caller only needs the headers as body-less
+output is much faster and substantially smaller.
 .RE
 
 A common use of