--- /dev/null
+====================
+notmuch-search-terms
+====================
+
+SYNOPSIS
+========
+
+**notmuch** **count** [option ...] <*search-term*> ...
+
+**notmuch** **dump** [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--] [--output=<*file*>] [--] [<*search-term*> ...]
+
+**notmuch** **search** [option ...] <*search-term*> ...
+
+**notmuch** **show** [option ...] <*search-term*> ...
+
+**notmuch** **tag** +<*tag*> ... -<*tag*> [--] <*search-term*> ...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+===========
+
+Several notmuch commands accept a common syntax for search terms.
+
+The search terms can consist of free-form text (and quoted phrases)
+which will match all messages that contain all of the given
+terms/phrases in the body, the subject, or any of the sender or
+recipient headers.
+
+As a special case, a search string consisting of exactly a single
+asterisk ("\*") will match all messages.
+
+In addition to free text, the following prefixes can be used to force
+terms to match against specific portions of an email, (where <brackets>
+indicate user-supplied values):
+
+- from:<name-or-address>
+
+- to:<name-or-address>
+
+- subject:<word-or-quoted-phrase>
+
+- attachment:<word>
+
+- tag:<tag> (or is:<tag>)
+
+- id:<message-id>
+
+- thread:<thread-id>
+
+- folder:<maildir-folder>
+
+- path:<directory-path> or path:<directory-path>/**
+
+- date:<since>..<until>
+
+The **from:** prefix is used to match the name or address of the sender
+of an email message.
+
+The **to:** prefix is used to match the names or addresses of any
+recipient of an email message, (whether To, Cc, or Bcc).
+
+Any term prefixed with **subject:** will match only text from the
+subject of an email. Searching for a phrase in the subject is supported
+by including quotation marks around the phrase, immediately following
+**subject:**.
+
+The **attachment:** prefix can be used to search for specific filenames
+(or extensions) of attachments to email messages.
+
+For **tag:** and **is:** valid tag values include **inbox** and
+**unread** by default for new messages added by **notmuch new** as well
+as any other tag values added manually with **notmuch tag**.
+
+For **id:**, message ID values are the literal contents of the
+Message-ID: header of email messages, but without the '<', '>'
+delimiters.
+
+The **thread:** prefix can be used with the thread ID values that are
+generated internally by notmuch (and do not appear in email messages).
+These thread ID values can be seen in the first column of output from
+**notmuch search**
+
+The **path:** prefix searches for email messages that are in
+particular directories within the mail store. The directory must be
+specified relative to the top-level maildir (and without the leading
+slash). By default, **path:** matches messages in the specified
+directory only. The "/\*\*" suffix can be used to match messages in
+the specified directory and all its subdirectories recursively.
+**path:""** matches messages in the root of the mail store and,
+likewise, **path:\*\*** matches all messages.
+
+The **folder:** prefix searches for email messages by maildir or MH
+folder. For MH-style folders, this is equivalent to **path:**. For
+maildir, this includes messages in the "new" and "cur"
+subdirectories. The exact syntax for maildir folders depends on your
+mail configuration. For maildir++, **folder:""** matches the inbox
+folder (which is the root in maildir++), other folder names always
+start with ".", and nested folders are separated by "."s, such as
+**folder:.classes.topology**. For "file system" maildir, the inbox is
+typically **folder:INBOX** and nested folders are separated by
+slashes, such as **folder:classes/topology**.
+
+Both **path:** and **folder:** will find a message if *any* copy of
+that message is in the specific directory/folder.
+
+The **date:** prefix can be used to restrict the results to only
+messages within a particular time range (based on the Date: header) with
+a range syntax of:
+
+date:<since>..<until>
+
+See **DATE AND TIME SEARCH** below for details on the range expression,
+and supported syntax for <since> and <until> date and time expressions.
+
+The time range can also be specified using timestamps with a syntax of:
+
+<initial-timestamp>..<final-timestamp>
+
+Each timestamp is a number representing the number of seconds since
+1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
+
+In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with
+Boolean operators ( **and**, **or**, **not** , etc.). Each term in the
+query will be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no explicit
+operator is provided, (except that terms with a common prefix will be
+implicitly combined with OR until we get Xapian defect #402 fixed).
+
+Parentheses can also be used to control the combination of the Boolean
+operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the
+shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
+expression).
+
+DATE AND TIME SEARCH
+====================
+
+notmuch understands a variety of standard and natural ways of expressing
+dates and times, both in absolute terms ("2012-10-24") and in relative
+terms ("yesterday"). Any number of relative terms can be combined ("1
+hour 25 minutes") and an absolute date/time can be combined with
+relative terms to further adjust it. A non-exhaustive description of the
+syntax supported for absolute and relative terms is given below.
+
+The range expression
+--------------------
+
+date:<since>..<until>
+
+The above expression restricts the results to only messages from <since>
+to <until>, based on the Date: header.
+
+<since> and <until> can describe imprecise times, such as "yesterday".
+In this case, <since> is taken as the earliest time it could describe
+(the beginning of yesterday) and <until> is taken as the latest time it
+could describe (the end of yesterday). Similarly, date:january..february
+matches from the beginning of January to the end of February.
+
+Currently, we do not support spaces in range expressions. You can
+replace the spaces with '\_', or (in most cases) '-', or (in some cases)
+leave the spaces out altogether. Examples in this man page use spaces
+for clarity.
+
+Open-ended ranges are supported (since Xapian 1.2.1), i.e. it's possible
+to specify date:..<until> or date:<since>.. to not limit the start or
+end time, respectively. Pre-1.2.1 Xapian does not report an error on
+open ended ranges, but it does not work as expected either.
+
+Entering date:expr without ".." (for example date:yesterday) won't work,
+as it's not interpreted as a range expression at all. You can achieve
+the expected result by duplicating the expr both sides of ".." (for
+example date:yesterday..yesterday).
+
+Relative date and time
+----------------------
+
+[N\|number]
+(years\|months\|weeks\|days\|hours\|hrs\|minutes\|mins\|seconds\|secs)
+[...]
+
+All refer to past, can be repeated and will be accumulated.
+
+Units can be abbreviated to any length, with the otherwise ambiguous
+single m being m for minutes and M for months.
+
+Number can also be written out one, two, ..., ten, dozen, hundred.
+Additionally, the unit may be preceded by "last" or "this" (e.g., "last
+week" or "this month").
+
+When combined with absolute date and time, the relative date and time
+specification will be relative from the specified absolute date and
+time.
+
+Examples: 5M2d, two weeks
+
+Supported absolute time formats
+-------------------------------
+
+- H[H]:MM[:SS] [(am\|a.m.\|pm\|p.m.)]
+
+- H[H] (am\|a.m.\|pm\|p.m.)
+
+- HHMMSS
+
+- now
+
+- noon
+
+- midnight
+
+- Examples: 17:05, 5pm
+
+Supported absolute date formats
+-------------------------------
+
+- YYYY-MM[-DD]
+
+- DD-MM[-[YY]YY]
+
+- MM-YYYY
+
+- M[M]/D[D][/[YY]YY]
+
+- M[M]/YYYY
+
+- D[D].M[M][.[YY]YY]
+
+- D[D][(st\|nd\|rd\|th)] Mon[thname] [YYYY]
+
+- Mon[thname] D[D][(st\|nd\|rd\|th)] [YYYY]
+
+- Wee[kday]
+
+Month names can be abbreviated at three or more characters.
+
+Weekday names can be abbreviated at three or more characters.
+
+Examples: 2012-07-31, 31-07-2012, 7/31/2012, August 3
+
+Time zones
+----------
+
+- (+\|-)HH:MM
+
+- (+\|-)HH[MM]
+
+Some time zone codes, e.g. UTC, EET.
+
+SEE ALSO
+========
+
+**notmuch(1)**, **notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**,
+**notmuch-dump(1)**, **notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-insert(1)**,
+**notmuch-new(1)**, **notmuch-reply(1)**, **notmuch-restore(1)**,
+**notmuch-search(1)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)**
projects / notmuch / blobdiff