Just found out that I?ve been piping things through wc for no reason. Heh. Here?s a quick patch, if you want to add this to the manual page.
Signed-off-by: Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at handgranat.org> --- notmuch.1 | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/notmuch.1 b/notmuch.1 index e573749..4d300c0 100644 --- a/notmuch.1 +++ b/notmuch.1 @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ syntax. See the section below for more details on the supported syntax. The -.BR search " and "show +.BR "search" ", " "show" " and " "count" commands are used to query the email database. .RS 4 .TP 4 @@ -239,6 +239,22 @@ See the .B "SEARCH SYNTAX" section below for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>. .RE +.TP +.BR count " <search-term>..." + +Count messages matching the search terms. + +The number of matching messages is output to stdout. + +A common use of +.B notmuch count +is to display the count of messages matching both a specific tag and +either inbox or unread + +See the +.B "SEARCH SYNTAX" +section below for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>. +.RE .RE The -- 1.7.0