Term or phrase fields can contain arbitrarily complex queries made up
from terms, operators, and modifiers, but not other fields.
+Range fields take one or two arguments specifying lower and upper
+bounds. One argument is interpreted as identical upper and lower
+bounds. Either upper or lower bound may be specified as ``""`` or
+``*`` to specify the lowest possible lower bound or highest possible
+upper bound.
+
+``lastmod`` ranges support negative arguments, interpreted relative to
+the most recent database revision (see :option:`count --lastmod`).
+
.. _field-table:
.. table:: Fields with supported modifiers
``(not Bob Marley)``
- Match messages containing neither "Bob" nor "Marley", nor their stems,
+ Match messages containing neither "Bob" nor "Marley", nor their stems.
``"quick fox"`` ``quick-fox`` ``quick@fox``
``(folder (of (id 1234@invalid)))``
- Match any message in the same folder as the one with Message-Id "1234@invalid"
+ Match any message in the same folder as the one with Message-Id "1234\@invalid".
``(id 1234@invalid blah@test)``
- Matches Message-Id "1234@invalid" *or* Message-Id "blah@test"
+ Matches Message-Id "1234\@invalid" *or* Message-Id "blah\@test".
``(and (infix "date:2009-11-18..2009-11-18") (tag unread))``
Match messages in the given date range with tag unread.
+``(and (date 2009-11-18 2009-11-18) (tag unread))``
+
+ Match messages in the given date range with tag unread.
+
+``(and (date 2009-11-18 *) (tag unread))``
+
+ Match messages from 2009-11-18 or later with tag unread.
+
+``(and (date * 2009-11-18) (tag unread))``
+
+ Match messages from 2009-11-18 or earlier with tag unread.
+
``(starts-with prelim)``
Match any words starting with "prelim".
Matches any word starting with "prelim", inside a message subject.
-``(subject (starts-wih quick) "brown fox")``
+``(subject (starts-with quick) "brown fox")``
Match messages whose subject contains "quick brown fox", but also
"brown fox quicksand".
``(thread (of (id 1234@invalid)))``
- Match any message in the same thread as the one with Message-Id "1234@invalid"
+ Match any message in the same thread as the one with Message-Id "1234\@invalid".
``(thread (matching (from bob@example.com) (to bob@example.com)))``
Match any (messages in) a thread containing a message from
- "bob@example.com" and a (possibly distinct) message to "bob at
- example.com")
+ "bob\@example.com" and a (possibly distinct) message to
+ "bob\@example.com".
``(to (or bob@example.com mallory@example.org))`` ``(or (to bob@example.com) (to mallory@example.org))``
- Match in the "To" or "Cc" headers, "bob@example.com",
- "mallory@example.org", and also "bob@example.com.au" since it
+ Match in the "To" or "Cc" headers, "bob\@example.com",
+ "mallory\@example.org", and also "bob\@example.com.au" since it
contains the adjacent triple "bob", "example", "com".
``(not (to *))``
``(List *)``
Match messages with a non-empty List-Id header, assuming
- configuration ``index.header.List=List-Id``
+ configuration ``index.header.List=List-Id``.
.. _macro_examples:
NOTES
=====
-.. [#macro-details] Technically macros impliment lazy evaluation and
+.. [#macro-details] Technically macros implement lazy evaluation and
lexical scope. There is one top level scope
containing all macro definitions, but all
parameter definitions are local to a given macro.
.. [#aka-bool] a.k.a. boolean prefixes
-.. [#not-phrase] Due to the implemention of phrase fields in Xapian,
+.. [#not-phrase] Due to the implementation of phrase fields in Xapian,
regex queries could only match individual words.
-.. [#not-body] Due the the way ``body`` is implemented in notmuch,
+.. [#not-body] Due to the way ``body`` is implemented in notmuch,
this modifier is not supported in the ``body`` field.
.. [#not-path] Due to the way recursive ``path`` queries are implemented
in notmuch, this modifier is not supported in the
``path`` field.
-.. |q1| replace:: :math:`q_1`
-.. |q2| replace:: :math:`q_2`
-.. |qn| replace:: :math:`q_n`
+.. |q1| replace:: `q`\ :sub:`1`
+.. |q2| replace:: `q`\ :sub:`2`
+.. |qn| replace:: `q`\ :sub:`n`
-.. |p1| replace:: :math:`p_1`
-.. |p2| replace:: :math:`p_2`
-.. |pn| replace:: :math:`p_n`
+.. |p1| replace:: `p`\ :sub:`1`
+.. |p2| replace:: `p`\ :sub:`2`
+.. |pn| replace:: `p`\ :sub:`n`