[PATCH v2 8/8] man: Update raw format documentation
Austin Clements
amdragon at MIT.EDU
Tue Mar 6 10:48:44 PST 2012
---
man/man1/notmuch-show.1 | 13 +++++++++----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
index 4c5db94..9506367 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
@@ -84,12 +84,17 @@ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
.TP 4
.BR raw " (default for a single part, see \-\-part)"
-For a message, the original, raw content of the email message is
-output. Consumers of this format should expect to implement MIME
-decoding and similar functions.
+For a message or an attached message part, the original, raw content
+of the email message is output. Consumers of this format should expect
+to implement MIME decoding and similar functions.
For a single part (\-\-part) the raw part content is output after
-performing any necessary MIME decoding.
+performing any necessary MIME decoding. Note that messages with a
+simple body still have two parts: part 0 is the whole message and part
+1 is the body.
+
+For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including all child
+parts) is output.
The raw format must only be used with search terms matching single
message.
--
1.7.7.3
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