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-# Searching with notmuch
+# Searching with Notmuch
What good is an advanced indexing mail client if we don't know how to
use it to actually find e-mail?
-Please see the [[notmuch-search-terms manual
-page|manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7]] first for an overview of the
-search syntax, including the prefixes (such as "to:") and date range
-searches.
+The [[notmuch-search-terms manual page|manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7]] should
+cover everything in a fairly concise manner. Please refer to that for any
+details.
Notmuch uses the [Xapian](http://xapian.org/) search engine. The [Xapian
QueryParser](http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html) documentation has