man: clarify search --exclude=flag

Improve the description of the search --exclude=flag option,
using text taken from the commit that introduced the option.
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Peter Wang 2013-05-11 20:50:06 +01:00 committed by David Bremner
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@ -147,9 +147,11 @@ results. Excluded messages are still marked in the relevant outputs.
.B flag
only has an effect when
.B --output=summary
In this case all matching threads are returned but the "match count"
is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the thread.
.BR --output=summary .
The output is almost identical to
.BR false ,
but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the
thread, rather than the number of matching messages.
.RE
.SH EXIT STATUS