X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fpick.man1;h=076f99d91fa219f7f80b23807823b0ec226c3f0b;hp=2f06a22fe0308553526f4698875cae6cf53de8a5;hb=6e9577f324bef90765a5edc02044eb111ec48072;hpb=5c43bb739797c078c3fd6aa982183e15af456d31 diff --git a/man/pick.man1 b/man/pick.man1 index 2f06a22..076f99d 100644 --- a/man/pick.man1 +++ b/man/pick.man1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" .TH PICK %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%] .SH NAME -pick \- search for messages by content +pick \- select messages by content .SH SYNOPSIS .HP 5 .na @@ -169,12 +169,22 @@ ago), and `tomorrow' (24 hours from now). All days of the week are judged to refer to a day in the past (e.g., telling \fIpick\fR `saturday' on a `tuesday' means `last\ saturday' not `this\ saturday'). -.PP +Further more, dates in a simplified ISO 8601/RFC 3339 style (e.g. +`YYYY-MM-DD' or `YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss') are accepted. Finally, in addition to these special specifications, .B pick will -also honor a specification of the form `\-dd', which means -`dd days ago'. +also honor a date specification of the form `\-\fIddd\fR', which means +`\fIddd\fR days ago'. +For example, +.PP +.RS 5 +.nf +pick\0\-after\0\-30 +.fi +.RE +.PP +identifies the messages of the last thirty days. .PP .B Pick supports complex boolean operations on the searching primitives @@ -223,7 +233,7 @@ output separated by newlines. This is .B extremely useful for quickly generating arguments for other -.B nmh +.B mmh programs by using the `backquoting' syntax of the shell. For example, the command .PP @@ -344,14 +354,14 @@ not, and merely matches the messages you specify. This lets you type something like: .PP .RS 5 -show\0`pick\0last:20\0\-seq\0fear` +show\0`pick\0l:20\0\-seq\0fear` .RE .PP instead of typing .PP .RS 5 .nf -mark\0\-add\0\-nozero\0\-seq\0fear\0last:20 +mark\0\-add\0\-nozero\0\-seq\0fear\0l:20 show\0fear .fi .RE @@ -394,7 +404,7 @@ no output, and the argument given to the outer command as a result of backquoting .B pick is empty. In the case of -.B nmh +.B mmh programs, the outer command now acts as if the default `msg' or `msgs' should be used (e.g., `all' in the case of