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authorEric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>2022-02-14 15:20:06 -0800
committerEric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>2022-02-14 15:21:21 -0800
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Be more explicit about the meaning of "remove prefix" in Gnus search
* doc/misc/gnus.texi (Search Engines): It's easy to get confused about what we're removing and why.
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@item remove-prefix
The directory part to be removed from the filenames returned by the
search query. This absolute path should include everything up to the
-top level of the message store.
+top level of the message store. Note that this is the path to the
+location of the actual messages, not to the search engine's indexes
+(nor, in the case of Mairix, to its symlink directories).
@item switches
Additional command-line switches to be fed to the search program. The