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+From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>\r
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+Subject: [PATCH v2 4/8] man: clarify search --exclude documentation\r
+Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 20:50:05 +0100\r
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+From: Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>\r
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+Highlight "excluded messages" as a term with a meaning that\r
+may not be obvious.\r
+\r
+Be explicit about the effects of search --exclude=true and\r
+--exclude=false.\r
+---\r
+ man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 15 +++++++++++++--\r
+ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1\r
+index d3391f8..59e8f34 100644\r
+--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1\r
++++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1\r
+@@ -132,8 +132,19 @@ Limit the number of displayed results to N.\r
+ .TP 4\r
+ .BR \-\-exclude=(true|false|flag)\r
+ \r
+-Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude from the\r
+-search results (the default) or not. The extra option\r
++A message is called "excluded" if it matches at least one tag in\r
++search.tag_exclude that does not appear explicitly in the search terms.\r
++This option specifies whether to omit excluded messages in the search\r
++process.\r
++\r
++The default value,\r
++.BR true ,\r
++prevents excluded messages from matching the search terms.\r
++\r
++.B false\r
++allows excluded messages to match search terms and appear in displayed\r
++results. Excluded messages are still marked in the relevant outputs.\r
++\r
+ .B flag\r
+ only has an effect when\r
+ .B --output=summary\r
+-- \r
+1.7.9.1\r
+\r