[Patch v3 11/15] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files confusion
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Sat Mar 8 13:19:41 PST 2014
From: Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org>
---
man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 55a81e7..a2b1ae4 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -82,8 +82,14 @@ one per line (\-\-format=text), separated by null characters
S-Expression list (\-\-format=sexp).
Note that each message may have multiple filenames associated with it.
-All of them are included in the output, unless limited with the
-\-\-duplicate=N option.
+All of them are included in the output (unless limited with the
+\-\-duplicate=N option). This may be particularly confusing for
+.B folder:
+or
+.B path:
+searches in a specified directory, as the messages may have duplicates
+in other directories that are included in the output, although these
+files alone would not match the search.
.RE
.RS 4
.TP 4
--
1.8.5.3
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