From: Jani Nikula Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 21:03:06 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: update man pages for folder: and path: search terms X-Git-Tag: 0.18_rc0~92 X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0969c8be09deb9b7d880d573c7410b2b5e5420e0 man: update man pages for folder: and path: search terms Text from review by Austin Clements . --- diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst index 20bc6f1e..1acdaa0b 100644 --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ indicate user-supplied values): - thread: -- folder: +- folder: + +- path: or path:/** - date:.. @@ -77,12 +79,28 @@ generated internally by notmuch (and do not appear in email messages). These thread ID values can be seen in the first column of output from **notmuch search** -The **folder:** prefix can be used to search for email message files -that are contained within particular directories within the mail store. -If the same email message has multiple message files associated with it, -it's sufficient for a match that at least one of the files is contained -within a matching directory. Only the directory components below the -top-level mail database path are available to be searched. +The **path:** prefix searches for email messages that are in +particular directories within the mail store. The directory must be +specified relative to the top-level maildir (and without the leading +slash). By default, **path:** matches messages in the specified +directory only. The "/\*\*" suffix can be used to match messages in +the specified directory and all its subdirectories recursively. +**path:""** matches messages in the root of the mail store and, +likewise, **path:\*\*** matches all messages. + +The **folder:** prefix searches for email messages by maildir or MH +folder. For MH-style folders, this is equivalent to **path:**. For +maildir, this includes messages in the "new" and "cur" +subdirectories. The exact syntax for maildir folders depends on your +mail configuration. For maildir++, **folder:""** matches the inbox +folder (which is the root in maildir++), other folder names always +start with ".", and nested folders are separated by "."s, such as +**folder:.classes.topology**. For "file system" maildir, the inbox is +typically **folder:INBOX** and nested folders are separated by +slashes, such as **folder:classes/topology**. + +Both **path:** and **folder:** will find a message if *any* copy of +that message is in the specific directory/folder. The **date:** prefix can be used to restrict the results to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date: header) with