[PATCH] Add count command to manual page

[PATCH] Add count command to manual page

[Sandra Snan]

Just found out that I’ve been piping things through wc for no reason.
Heh. Here’s a quick patch, if you want to add this to the manual page.

Signed-off-by: Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@handgranat.org>
---
 notmuch.1 |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch.1 b/notmuch.1
index e573749..4d300c0 100644
--- a/notmuch.1
+++ b/notmuch.1
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ syntax. See the
 section below for more details on the supported syntax.
 
 The
-.BR search " and "show
+.BR "search" ", " "show" " and " "count"
 commands are used to query the email database.
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
@@ -239,6 +239,22 @@ See the
 .B "SEARCH SYNTAX"
 section below for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
 .RE
+.TP
+.BR count " <search-term>..."
+
+Count messages matching the search terms.
+
+The number of matching messages is output to stdout.
+
+A common use of
+.B notmuch count
+is to display the count of messages matching both a specific tag and
+either inbox or unread
+
+See the
+.B "SEARCH SYNTAX"
+section below for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
+.RE
 .RE
 
 The
-- 
1.7.0

Re: [PATCH] Add count command to manual page

[Carl Worth]

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:57 +0100, Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@handgranat.org> wrote:
> Just found out that I’ve been piping things through wc for no reason.
> Heh. Here’s a quick patch, if you want to add this to the manual page.

Yikes! I'm sorry that we had such a big omission in our manual
page. And thanks for sending the patch.

I'm sorry that I was so behind on the mailing-list backlog that I didn't
notice this and apply it right away. Instead, during some recent updates
to the manual page, I noticed that this was missing and already added
it.

But please keep suggestions for improvement coming!

-Carl

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