notmuch.el: When removing tags, offer only those a msg/thread has set.

[notmuch] / notmuch.1

diff --git a/notmuch.1 b/notmuch.1
index eeb1a948ac8c3da69915887a8adc8578a4c1c995..2be77f992055896072578dadd8c316f78c3edb66 100644 (file)
--- a/notmuch.1
+++ b/notmuch.1
@@ -154,29 +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
@@ -408,6 +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