Sorry about that: I meant to cancel the message rather than sending it. What I was wondering was whether we should change the wording of the manpage to make it clear that notmuch search --output=files returns all filenames where any of the copies matches the search terms (I think; I was going to check before sending anything). In particular, notmuch search --output=files folder:a_folder may return filenames not in a_folder (This is slightly more noticeable with this patch than before as notmuch search --output=files --duplicate=1 folder:a_folder could give no results in folder a_folder (None of the above is meant to be a criticism of this patch: I have only sent this email due to my accidental sending of the previous message) Best wishes Mark What IOn Sun, 09 Jun 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing that slightly bothers me with this set (which in some sense is > already true) is doing a search of the form > > notmuch search --output=files folder:<a_folder> > > T > > On Sun, 09 Jun 2013, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: >> --- >> man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 11 +++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 >> index 1c1e049..4d8b3d3 100644 >> --- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 >> +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 >> @@ -158,6 +158,17 @@ but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the >> thread, rather than the number of matching messages. >> .RE >> >> +.RS 4 >> +.TP 4 >> +.BR \-\-duplicate=N >> + >> +Effective with >> +.BR --output=files , >> +output the Nth filename associated with each message matching the >> +query (N is 1-based). If N is greater than the number of files >> +associated with the message, don't print anything. >> +.RE >> + >> .SH EXIT STATUS >> >> This command supports the following special exit status codes >> -- >> 1.7.10.4 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> notmuch mailing list >> notmuch@notmuchmail.org >> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch