[PATCH 5/8] man: clarify search --exclude=flag
Peter Wang
novalazy at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 06:29:04 PDT 2012
Improve the description of the search --exclude=flag option,
using text taken from the commit that introduced the option.
---
man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 003b742..e23ca30 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -130,9 +130,11 @@ results. Excluded messages are still marked in the relevant outputs.
.B flag
only has an effect when
-.B --output=summary
-In this case all matching threads are returned but the "match count"
-is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the thread.
+.BR --output=summary .
+The output is almost identical to
+.BR false ,
+but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the
+thread, rather than the number of matching messages.
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
--
1.7.4.4
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