notmuch-new: Check for non-fatal errors from stat()

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@@ -53,9 +53,10 @@ Interactively sets up notmuch for first use.
 The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
 address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory
 containing your email archives. Your answers will be written to a
-configuration file in ${HOME}/.notmuch-config . This configuration
-file will be created with descriptive comments, making it easy to edit
-by hand later to change the configuration. Or you can run
+configuration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or
+${HOME}/.notmuch-config . This configuration file will be created with
+descriptive comments, making it easy to edit by hand later to change the
+configuration. Or you can run
 .B "notmuch setup"
 again to change the configuration.
 
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ The
 commands are used to query the email database.
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
-.BR search " [options] <search-term>..."
+.BR search " [options...] <search-term>..."
 
 Search for messages matching the given search terms, and display as
 results the threads containing the matched messages.
@@ -153,29 +154,6 @@ Supported options for
 include
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
-.BR \-\-max\-threads= <value>
-
-Restricts displayed search results to a subset of the complete results
-that would match the terms. With this option, no more than <value>
-thread results will be displayed. If this option is not used, then all
-matching threads will be displayed. See also the
-.B \-\-first
-option.
-
-.TP
-.BR \-\-first= <value>
-
-Omits the first <value> threads from the search results that would
-otherwise be displayed. Together with the
-.BR \-\-max\-threads
-option, this can be used to perform incremental searches. For example,
-the first 50 thread results can be displayed with
-.B "\-\-first=0 \-\-max\-threads=50"
-and the next 50 could be displayed with
-.B "\-\-first=50 \-\-max\-threads=50"
-etc.
-
-.TP
 .BR \-\-sort= ( newest\-first | oldest\-first )
 
 This option can be used to present results in either chronological order
@@ -242,11 +220,11 @@ Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
 To make replying to email easier,
 .B notmuch reply
 takes an existing set of messages and constructs a suitable mail
-template. It take the content of the Reply-to header (if any,
-otherwise From:) and places it int the To: header. It also copies any
-value from the To: and CC: lists, but avoids including any of the
-current user's email addresses (as configured in primary_mail or
-other_email in the .notmuch-config file) in the recipient list
+template. The Reply-to header (if any, otherwise From:) is used for
+the To: address. Vales from the To: and Cc: headers are copied, but
+not including any of the current user's email addresses (as configured
+in primary_mail or other_email in the .notmuch-config file) in the
+recipient list
 
 It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if
 not already present), and adding the message IDs of the messages being
@@ -407,6 +385,21 @@ Parentheses can also be used to control the combination of the Boolean
 operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the
 shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
 expression).
+
+Finally, results can be restricted to only messages within a
+particular time range, (based on the Date: header) with a syntax of:
+
+       <intial-timestamp>..<final-timestamp>
+
+Each timestamp is a number representing the number of seconds since
+1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. This is not the most convenient means of
+expressing date ranges, but until notmuch is fixed to accept a more
+convenient form, one can use the date program to construct
+timestamps. For example, with the bash shell the folowing syntax would
+specify a date range to return messages from 2009-10-01 until the
+current time:
+
+       $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s)
 .SH SEE ALSO
 The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available as
 .B notmuch.el