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authorDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2021-09-04 08:34:17 +0300
committerDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2021-10-17 12:02:14 +0300
commitb1a5bb86781cbf96197bb33946d13f305a23666f (patch)
treebb4ac840fe817385491cbfac0d5e2b23c1d4d962
parent904450bf42b8570b029859e0532a39369fd70eaa (diff)
mu int: improve docs for regexp addresses
-rw-r--r--man/mu-init.15
-rw-r--r--mu4e/mu4e.texi3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/mu-init.1 b/man/mu-init.1
index 1a6f731..c09d959 100644
--- a/man/mu-init.1
+++ b/man/mu-init.1
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ allows you, for example, to filter out (\fBmu cfind --personal\fR) addresses
which were merely seen in mailing list messages.
\fI<my-email-address>\fR can be either a plain e-mail address (such as
-\fBfoo@example.com\fR), or a regular-expression (of the 'Basic POSIX'
-flavor), wrapped in \fB/\fR (such as \fB/foo-.*@example\\.com/\fR).
+\fBfoo@example.com\fR), or a regular-expression (of the 'Basic POSIX' flavor),
+wrapped in \fB/\fR (such as \fB/foo-.*@example\\.com/\fR). Depending on your
+shell program, the argument may need to b quoted.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
diff --git a/mu4e/mu4e.texi b/mu4e/mu4e.texi
index 048e410..319f674 100644
--- a/mu4e/mu4e.texi
+++ b/mu4e/mu4e.texi
@@ -452,7 +452,8 @@ indexing messages. If you want to change them, you need to @t{init}
once again.
The addresses can also be basic POSIX regular expressions, wrapped in
-slashes, such as @t{/foo-.*@@example\\.com/}.
+slashes, such as @t{/foo-.*@@example\\.com/}. Depending on your shell
+program, the argument may need to b quoted.
If you want to see the current values, you can use @command{mu info}.