X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman7%2Fnotmuch-sexp-queries.rst;h=db3f88376cff605d1651e66286ad52159c6d363f;hb=6ab2d9b1a2e62b76960df8e80ff2a45d9c6a8551;hp=d177934d97df075b961976287b4a113aaf9989a1;hpb=a2785c3919c56a370a7f860f4eeb93846f4a1e63;p=notmuch diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst index d177934d..db3f8837 100644 --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst @@ -37,21 +37,27 @@ a *field*, *logical operation*, or *modifier*, and 0 or more subqueries. ``*`` + "*" matches any non-empty string in the current field. + ``()`` The empty list matches all messages *term* - Match all messages containing *term*, possibly after - stemming or phase splitting. For discussion of stemming in - notmuch see :any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)`. Stemming only applies - to unquoted terms (basic values) in s-expression queries. + + Match all messages containing *term*, possibly after stemming or + phrase splitting. For discussion of stemming in notmuch see + :any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)`. Stemming only applies to unquoted + terms (basic values) in s-expression queries. For information on + phrase splitting see :any:`fields`. ``(`` *field* |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` Restrict the queries |q1| to |qn| to *field*, and combine with *and* (for most fields) or *or*. See :any:`fields` for more information. ``(`` *operator* |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` - Combine queries |q1| to |qn|. See :any:`operators` for more information. + Combine queries |q1| to |qn|. Currently supported operators are + ``and``, ``or``, and ``not``. ``(not`` |q1| ... |qn| ``)`` is equivalent + to ``(and (not`` |q1| ``) ... (not`` |qn| ``))``. ``(`` *modifier* |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` Combine queries |q1| to |qn|, and reinterpret the result (e.g. as a regular expression). @@ -62,16 +68,108 @@ subqueries. FIELDS `````` -.. _operators: +*Fields* [#aka-pref]_ +correspond to attributes of mail messages. Some are inherent (and +immutable) like ``subject``, while others ``tag`` and ``property`` are +settable by the user. Each concrete field in +:any:`the table below ` +is discussed further under "Search prefixes" in +:any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)`. The row *user* refers to user defined +fields, described in :any:`notmuch-config(1)`. -OPERATORS -````````` +Most fields are either *phrase fields* [#aka-prob]_ (which match +sequences of words), or *term fields* [#aka-bool]_ (which match exact +strings). *Phrase splitting* breaks the term (basic value or quoted +string) into words, ignore punctuation. Phrase splitting is applied to +terms in phrase (probabilistic) fields. Both phrase splitting and +stemming apply only in phrase fields. + +Each term or phrase field has an associated combining operator +(``and`` or ``or``) used to combine the queries from each element of +the tail of the list. This is generally ``or`` for those fields where +a message has one such attribute, and ``and`` otherwise. + +Term or phrase fields can contain arbitrarily complex queries made up +from terms, operators, and modifiers, but not other fields. + +.. _field-table: + +.. table:: Fields with supported modifiers + + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | field | combine | type | expand | wildcard | regex | + +============+===========+===========+===========+===========+==========+ + | *none* | and | | no | yes | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | *user* | and | phrase | no | yes | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | attachment | and | phrase | yes | yes | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | body | and | phrase | no | no | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | date | | range | no | no | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | folder | or | phrase | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | from | and | phrase | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | id | or | term | no | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | is | and | term | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | lastmod | | range | no | no | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | mid | or | term | no | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | mimetype | or | phrase | yes | yes | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | path | or | term | no | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | property | and | term | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | subject | and | phrase | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | tag | and | term | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | thread | or | term | yes | yes | yes | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ + | to | and | phrase | yes | yes | no | + +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+ .. _modifiers: MODIFIERS ````````` +*Modifiers* refer to any prefixes (first elements of compound queries) +that are neither operators nor fields. + +``(infix`` *atom* ``)`` + Interpret *atom* as an infix notmuch query (see + :any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)`). Not supported inside fields. + +``(matching`` |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` ``(of`` |q1| |q2| ... |qn| ``)`` + Match all messages have the same values of the current field as + those matching all of |q1| ... |qn|. Supported in most term [#not-path]_ or + phrase fields. Most commonly used in the ``thread`` field. + +``(query`` *atom* ``)`` + Expand to the saved query named by *atom*. See + :any:`notmuch-config(1)` for more. Note that the saved query must + be in infix syntax (:any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)`). Not supported + inside fields. + +``(regex`` *atom* ``)`` ``(rx`` *atom* ``)`` + Interpret *atom* as a POSIX.2 regular expression (see + :manpage:`regex(7)`). This applies in term fields and a subset [#not-phrase]_ of + phrase fields (see :any:`field-table`). + +``(starts-with`` *subword* ``)`` + Matches any term starting with *subword*. This applies in either + phrase or term :any:`fields `, or outside of fields [#not-body]_. Note that + a ``starts-with`` query cannot be part of a phrase. The + atom ``*`` is a synonym for ``(starts-with "")``. + EXAMPLES ======== @@ -82,6 +180,79 @@ EXAMPLES Match all messages containing "added", but also those containing "add", "additional", "Additional", "adds", etc... via stemming. +``(and Bob Marley)`` + Match messages containing words "Bob" and "Marley", or their stems + The words need not be adjacent. + +``(not Bob Marley)`` + Match messages containing neither "Bob" nor "Marley", nor their stems, + +``"quick fox"`` ``quick-fox`` ``quick@fox`` + Match the *phrase* "quick" followed by "fox" in phrase fields (or + outside a field). Match the literal string in a term field. + +``(folder (of (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" + +``(and (infix "date:2009-11-18..2009-11-18") (tag unread))`` + Match messages in the given date range with tag unread. + +``(starts-with prelim)`` + Match any words starting with "prelim". + +``(subject quick "brown fox")`` + Match messages whose subject contains "quick" (anywhere, stemmed) and + the phrase "brown fox". + +``(subject (starts-with prelim))`` + Matches any word starting with "prelim", inside a message subject. + +``(subject (starts-wih 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" + +``(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") + +``(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 + contains the adjacent triple "bob", "example", "com". + +``(not (to *))`` + Match messages with an empty or invalid 'To' and 'Cc' field. + +``(List *)`` + Match messages with a non-empty List-Id header, assuming + configuration ``index.header.List=List-Id`` + +NOTES +===== + +.. [#aka-pref] a.k.a. prefixes + +.. [#aka-prob] a.k.a. probabilistic prefixes + +.. [#aka-bool] a.k.a. boolean prefixes + +.. [#not-phrase] Due to the implemention of phrase fields in Xapian, + regex queries could only match individual words. + +.. [#not-body] Due the 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`