notmuch: Document the new special-case syntax of "*".

[notmuch] / notmuch.c

diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c
index f5669fcda2093cf5116f7bb99e7c5674745eb9d3..7e595e247e9f41960df94e01f027110b24859a91 100644 (file)
--- a/notmuch.c
+++ b/notmuch.c
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ static const char search_terms_help[] =
     "\tthe given terms/phrases in the body, the subject, or any of\n"
     "\tthe sender or recipient headers.\n"
     "\n"
+    "\tAs a special case, a search string consisting of exactly a\n"
+    "\tsingle asterisk (\"*\") will match all messages.\n"
+    "\n"
     "\tIn addition to free text, the following prefixes can be used\n"
     "\tto force terms to match against specific portions of an email,\n"
     "\t(where <brackets> indicate user-supplied values):\n"
@@ -220,6 +223,10 @@ command_t commands[] = {
       "\tof messages matching both a specific tag and either inbox\n"
       "\tor unread\n"
       "\n"
+      "\tIf no parameters are given, or the special search terms '' or\n"
+      "\t'*' are given, it will display the total number of messages in\n"
+      "\tthe database.\n"
+      "\n"
       "\tSee \"notmuch help search-terms\" for details of the search\n"
       "\t\tterms syntax." },
     { "reply", notmuch_reply_command,