## Operators
-Xapian implements the typical usual operators and a few more that are
+Xapian implements the usual operators and a few more that are
useful when searching e-mails.
-*Note: The operators need not be capitalized for notmuch, so NOT and not are
+*Note: The operators need not be capitalized for notmuch, so 'NOT' and 'not' are
equivalent. The capitalized form is used below only for readability*
### '+' and '-'
notmuch search +term1
-will return results that contain 'term1'.
+will only return results that contain 'term1'.
notmuch search -term2
notmuch search term1 ADJ term2
will return results where term1 is within 10 words of term2, but in the
-same order. The threshold can be set the same as with NEAR:
+same order as in the query. The threshold can be set the same as with NEAR:
notmuch search term1 ADJ/7 term2