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authorDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2019-02-18 09:08:48 -0400
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2019-05-25 07:21:21 -0300
commit9dedb23b47961047d75ef08210481018042d0baf (patch)
tree9ae9b9ffd38049d6a5c47849b894ea1e831e3d94 /doc
parentadb53b073791f710b93a8fc755b6b7b606bf7fd1 (diff)
doc: document user header indexing.
It's a bit odd that the primary documentation is in notmuch-config, but it is consistent with the "query:" prefix.
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-rw-r--r--doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst9
-rw-r--r--doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst3
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diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
index 89909808..28487079 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
@@ -195,6 +195,15 @@ The available configuration items are described below.
Default: ``auto``.
+**index.header.<prefix>** **[STORED IN DATABASE]**
+ Define the query prefix <prefix>, based on a mail header. For
+ example ``index.header.List=List-Id`` will add a probabilistic
+ prefix ``List:`` that searches the ``List-Id`` field. User
+ defined prefixes must not start with 'a'...'z'; in particular
+ adding a prefix with same name as a predefined prefix is not
+ supported. See **notmuch-search-terms(7)** for a list of existing
+ prefixes, and an explanation of probabilistic prefixes.
+
**built_with.<name>**
Compile time feature <name>. Current possibilities include
"compact" (see **notmuch-compact(1)**) and "field_processor" (see
diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst
index fd8bf634..1dd2dc58 100644
--- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst
+++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ property:<key>=<value>
can be present on a given message with several different values.
See **notmuch-properties(7)** for more details.
+User defined prefixes are also supported, see **notmuch-config(1)** for
+details.
+
Operators
---------