special labels (Draft, Starred, Sent, Spam, etc.). Highlight a label
and press enter to view all the messages with that label.
-What you just did was actually a specific search. For a general
-search, press "/". Now type in your query (again, Ctrl-G to cancel at
-any point.) You can just type in arbitrary text, which will be matched
-on a per-word basis against the bodies of all email in the index, or
-you can make use of the full Ferret query syntax:
+What you just did was actually a specific search. For a general search,
+press "\" (backslash---forward slash is used for in-buffer search,
+following console conventions). Now type in your query (again, Ctrl-G to
+cancel at any point.) You can just type in arbitrary text, which will be
+matched on a per-word basis against the bodies of all email in the
+index, or you can make use of the full Ferret query syntax:
- Phrasal queries using double-quotes, e.g.: "three contiguous words"
- Queries against a particular field using <field name>:<query>,
e.g.: label:ruby-talk, or from:matz@ruby-lang.org. (Fields include:
body, from, to, and subject.)
-- Force non-occurrence by -, e.g. -body:"hot soup"
+- Force non-occurrence by -, e.g. -body:"hot soup".
+- If you have the chronic gem installed, date queries like
+ "before:today", "on:today", "after:yesterday", "after:(2 days ago)"
+ (parentheses required for multi-word descriptions).
You can combine those all together. For example:
- label:ruby-talk subject:\[ANN\] -rails
+ label:ruby-talk subject:\[ANN\] -rails on:today
Play around with the search, and see the Ferret documentation for
details on more sophisticated queries (date ranges, "within n words",
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