[PATCH 3/4] man: update man page for the new --body=true|false option

Mark Walters markwalters1009 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 09:17:20 PDT 2012


---
 man/man1/notmuch-show.1 |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
index 5fa590e..d781c47 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
@@ -154,6 +154,22 @@ The default is
 
 .RE
 
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B \-\-body=(true|false)
+
+If true,
+.B notmuch show
+includes the bodies of the messages in the output whereas, if false,
+they are omitted. It defaults to true.  Note that
+.B --body=false
+is only implemented for the json format.
+
+This is useful if the caller is only interested in the headers as it
+is much faster and the amount of output data is substantially
+reduced.
+.RE
+
 A common use of
 .B notmuch show
 is to display a single thread of email messages. For this, use a
-- 
1.7.9.1



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