On Sun, 18 Jan 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > This is lightly massaged from the searching page on the wiki. > --- > doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst > index 52f6804..3b27053 100644 > --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst > +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst > @@ -129,6 +129,34 @@ operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the > shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized > expression). > > +Stemming > +-------- > + > +**Stemming** in notmuch means is that these searches Unnecessary "is"? > + > +:: > + > + notmuch search detailed > + notmuch search details > + notmuch search detail > + > +will all return identical results, because Xapian first "reduces" the > +term to the common stem (here 'detail') and then performs the search. > + > +There are two ways to turn this off: a search for a capitalized word > +will be performed unstemmed, so that one can search for "John" and not > +get results for "Johnson"; phrase searches are also unstemmed (see > +below for details). Stemming is currently only supported for > +English. Words in other languages will be performed unstemmed unless Maybe end the sentence here, and drop this line: > +somebody teaches Xapian how to perform stemming for that language. > + > +Wildcards > +--------- > + > +It is possible to use a trailing '\*' as a wildcard. A search for > +'wildc\*' will match 'wildcard', 'wildcat', etc. > + > + > Boolean and Probabilistic Prefixes > ---------------------------------- > > -- > 2.1.4