lib/parse-sexp: add term prefix backed fields

[notmuch] / doc / man7 / notmuch-sexp-queries.rst

diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
index 08e97cc3b29579d469a10a435937c03ff957e07d..6e68fcc3d87dbc3e90be585576cbbe7fb6125a2f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
+++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
@@ -40,10 +40,12 @@ subqueries.
     Match 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*
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ subqueries.
 FIELDS
 ``````
 
-*Fields* (also called *prefixes* in notmuch documentation)
+*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
@@ -72,6 +74,21 @@ 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)`.
 
+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
@@ -103,7 +120,7 @@ fields, described in :any:`notmuch-config(1)`.
   +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
   |  mimetype  |    or     |  phrase   |    yes    |    yes    |    no    |
   +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
-  |    path    |    or     |   term    |    yes    |    yes    |   yes    |
+  |    path    |    or     |   term    |    no     |    yes    |   yes    |
   +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
   |  property  |    and    |   term    |    yes    |    yes    |   yes    |
   +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
@@ -138,10 +155,31 @@ EXAMPLES
 ``(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.
+
+``(id 1234@invalid blah@test)``
+    Matches Message-Id "1234@invalid" *or* Message-Id "blah@test"
+
 ``(subject quick "brown fox")``
     Match messages whose subject contains "quick" (anywhere, stemmed) and
     the phrase "brown fox".
 
+``(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".
+
+NOTES
+=====
+
+.. [#aka-pref] a.k.a. prefixes
+
+.. [#aka-prob] a.k.a. probabilistic prefixes
+
+.. [#aka-bool] a.k.a. boolean prefixes
+
 .. |q1| replace:: :math:`q_1`
 .. |q2| replace:: :math:`q_2`
 .. |qn| replace:: :math:`q_n`