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authorDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2023-09-09 11:49:42 +0300
committerDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2023-09-09 11:59:59 +0300
commitf6122ecc9ea46065fe5888b5a9d3d3263a0439e9 (patch)
treedd603d7077d4cc3ff9515879d37e29757c128c3b /man
parenta9bd6e69d32c7699916346f9e1f67d09d5d2ef85 (diff)
mu-find: add --analyze option
For analyzing queries with the new query-parser.
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diff --git a/man/mu-find.1.org b/man/mu-find.1.org
index 35ad538..845db60 100644
--- a/man/mu-find.1.org
+++ b/man/mu-find.1.org
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ entries are displayed.
** --summary-len=<number>
If > 0, use that number of lines of the message to provide a summary.
-** --format=<plain|links|xquery|xml|sexp>
+** --format=<plain|links|xml|sexp>
output results in the specified format:
@@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ output results in the specified format:
information).
- *xml* formats the search results as XML.
- *sexp* formats the search results as an s-expression as used in Lisp programming
- environments.
-- *xquery* shows the Xapian query corresponding to your search terms. This is
- meant for for debugging purposes.
+ environments
** --linksdir=<dir> and -c, --clearlinks
when using ~-format=links~, output the results as a maildir with symbolic links to
@@ -215,6 +213,14 @@ not this may not really be the same message, if the message-id was copied.
The algorithm used for determining the threads is based on Jamie Zawinksi's
description: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
+** -a,--analyze
+instead of executing the query, analyze it by show the parse-tree s-expression
+and a stringified version of the Xapian query. This can help users to determine
+how ~mu~ interprets some query.
+
+The output of this command are differ between versions, but should be helpful
+nevertheless.
+
#+include: "muhome.inc" :minlevel 2
#+include: "common-options.inc" :minlevel 1