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[188.238.59.76]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id uo6sm56675405wjc.49.2015.02.23.10.23.09 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:23:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jani Nikula To: David Bremner , David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] doc: add more information on operators. In-Reply-To: <1421585971-29949-3-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> References: <87h9vojsa0.fsf@nikula.org> <1421585971-29949-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> <1421585971-29949-3-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.19+49~g2049205 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:23:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87385w5vxc.fsf@nikula.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:31:28 -0000 On Sun, 18 Jan 2015, David Bremner wrote: > More material borrowed from the wiki page on "searching" > --- > doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst > index 3b27053..a315fbe 100644 > --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst > +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst > @@ -118,17 +118,50 @@ The time range can also be specified using timestamps with a syntax of: > Each timestamp is a number representing the number of seconds since > 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. > > -In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with > -Boolean operators ( **and**, **or**, **not** , etc.). Each term in the > -query will be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no explicit > -operator is provided, (except that terms with a common prefix will be > -implicitly combined with OR until we get Xapian defect #402 fixed). > +Operators > +--------- > > +In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with > +Boolean operators ( **and**, **or**, **not**, and **xor**). Each term Extra space after (. > +in the query will be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no > +explicit operator is provided, (except that terms with a common prefix > +will be implicitly combined with OR until we get Xapian defect #402 > +fixed). The shorthand '-' can be used for 'not ' but > +unfortunately this does not work at the start of an expression. I think people expect tag:inbox tag:unread to have implicit OR by now, so we could just drop the reference to the xapian defect. Otherwise these patches LGTM, and I like getting this info into the man page rather than the wiki. BR, Jani. > 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). > > +In addition to the standard boolean operators, Xapian provides several > +operators specific to text searching. > + > +:: > + > + notmuch search term1 NEAR term2 > + > +will return results where term1 is within 10 words of term2. The > +threshold can be set like this: > + > +:: > + > + notmuch search term1 NEAR/2 term2 > + > +The search > + > +:: > + > + notmuch search term1 ADJ term2 > + > +will return results where term1 is within 10 words of term2, but in the > +same order as in the query. The threshold can be set the same as with > +NEAR: > + > +:: > + > + notmuch search term1 ADJ/7 term2 > + > + > Stemming > -------- > > -- > 2.1.4