doc: field processor support now always included, adjust manual pages

The features that require field processor support, are now just
documented w/o mentioning **Xapian Field Processors**' is needed
for those.

Replaced "compact" and "field_processor" with "retry_lock" in
build_with config option, as it is currently the only one that
is optionally excluded. The former 2 are now documented as
features always included.

Dropped one 'we' "passive" in notmuch-search-terms.rst. It was the
only one, and inconsistent with rest of the documentation in that
file.

Dropped message about conditional open-ended ranges support, as
those are now always supported.
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Tomi Ollila 2020-06-02 23:21:59 +03:00 committed by David Bremner
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@ -198,8 +198,9 @@ The available configuration items are described below.
**built_with.<name>**
Compile time feature <name>. Current possibilities include
"compact" (see **notmuch-compact(1)**) and "field_processor" (see
**notmuch-search-terms(7)**).
"retry_lock" (configure option, included by default).
(since notmuch 0.30, "compact" and "field_processor" are
always included.)
**query.<name>** **[STORED IN DATABASE]**
Expansion for named query called <name>. See

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@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ In addition to free text, the following prefixes can be used to force
terms to match against specific portions of an email, (where <brackets>
indicate user-supplied values).
If notmuch is built with **Xapian Field Processors** (see below) some
of the prefixes with <regex> forms can be also used to restrict the
results to those whose value matches a regular expression (see
Some of the prefixes with <regex> forms can be also used to restrict
the results to those whose value matches a regular expression (see
**regex(7)**) delimited with //, for example::
notmuch search 'from:"/bob@.*[.]example[.]com/"'
@ -87,8 +86,7 @@ thread:<thread-id>
of output from **notmuch search**
thread:{<notmuch query>}
If notmuch is built with **Xapian Field Processors** (see below),
threads may be searched for indirectly by providing an arbitrary
Threads may be searched for indirectly by providing an arbitrary
notmuch query in **{}**. For example, the following returns
threads containing a message from mallory and one (not necessarily
the same message) with Subject containing the word "crypto".
@ -158,9 +156,7 @@ lastmod:<initial-revision>..<final-revision>
query:<name>
The **query:** prefix allows queries to refer to previously saved
queries added with **notmuch-config(1)**. Named queries are only
available if notmuch is built with **Xapian Field Processors**
(see below).
queries added with **notmuch-config(1)**.
property:<key>=<value>
The **property:** prefix searches for messages with a particular
@ -353,23 +349,21 @@ since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. For example:
date:@<initial-timestamp>..@<final-timestamp>
date:<expr>..! can be used as a shorthand for date:<expr>..<expr>. The
expansion takes place before interpretation, and thus, for example,
date:monday..! matches from the beginning of Monday until the end of
Monday.
With **Xapian Field Processor** support (see below), non-range
date queries such as date:yesterday will work, but otherwise
will give unexpected results; if in doubt use date:yesterday..!
Currently, we do not support spaces in range expressions. You can
Currently, spaces in range expressions are not supported. You can
replace the spaces with '\_', or (in most cases) '-', or (in some cases)
leave the spaces out altogether. Examples in this man page use spaces
for clarity.
Open-ended ranges are supported (since Xapian 1.2.1), i.e. it's possible
to specify date:..<until> or date:<since>.. to not limit the start or
end time, respectively. Pre-1.2.1 Xapian does not report an error on
open ended ranges, but it does not work as expected either.
Open-ended ranges are supported. I.e. it's possible to specify
date:..<until> or date:<since>.. to not limit the start or
end time, respectively.
Single expression
-----------------
date:<expr> works as a shorthand for date:<expr>..<expr>.
For example, date:monday matches from the beginning of Monday until
the end of Monday.
Relative date and time
----------------------
@ -446,24 +440,6 @@ Time zones
Some time zone codes, e.g. UTC, EET.
XAPIAN FIELD PROCESSORS
=======================
Certain optional features of the notmuch query processor rely on the
presence of the Xapian field processor API. You can determine if your
notmuch was built against a sufficiently recent version of Xapian by running
::
% notmuch config get built_with.field_processor
Currently the following features require field processor support:
- non-range date queries, e.g. "date:today"
- named queries e.g. "query:my_special_query"
- regular expression searches, e.g. "subject:/^\\[SPAM\\]/"
- thread subqueries, e.g. "thread:{from:bob}"
SEE ALSO
========