--- 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 55a81e79fce4..a2b1ae43f411 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 -- 1.9.0