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@@ -26,26 +26,25 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities.
 
   * [fetchmail](http://fetchmail.berlios.de/)
 
-  See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on intial tagging of messages.
+  See the [[initial_tagging]] page for more info on initial tagging of messages.
 
-* <span id="print_filenames">**Print only filenames of a search (python bindings)**</span>
+* <span id="python">**Use notmuch from python**</span>
 
-  Notmuch includes [python bindings](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/notmuch)
-  to the notmuch shared library. Extensive API documentation
-  [is available](http://packages.python.org/notmuch).
+  Notmuch includes python bindings to the notmuch shared
+  library. Extensive API documentation [is
+  available](http://notmuch.readthedocs.org/).
 
   The bindings are very simple to use.  As an example, given you have
   the python bindings installed (or simply set your PYTHONPATH
   environment variable to point to the .../bindings/python directory),
-  this script will print the filenames of a matching search:
+  this snippet will produce a list of mails matching the given
+  expression:
 
-                             #!/usr/bin/env python
-                             import sys
-                             import notmuch
-                             search = " ".join(sys.argv[1:])
-                             q = notmuch.Database().create_query(search)
-                             for m in q.search_messages():
-                                 print m.get_filename()
+          >>> import notmuch
+          >>> db = notmuch.Database()
+          >>> query = db.create_query('tag:inbox AND NOT tag:killed')
+          >>> list(query.search_messages()) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS
+          [...]
 
 * <span id="sync_maildir_flags">**Sync notmuch tags and maildir flags**</span>
 
@@ -139,3 +138,7 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities.
   output.  Using the instructions from [Gmane's
   site](http://gmane.org/export.php), we can download an mbox file, which we
   can then convert to maildir using mb2md or other utility.
+
+* <span id="special_tags">**Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch**</span>
+
+  See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]].