Changeset 5484:4139ac196ca8

Timestamp:

2008-08-21 00:36:56 (3 months ago)

Author:

Rocco Rutte <pdmef@…>

Branch:

HEAD

Message:

Better document the effect of $thorough_search being unset.
Closes #3104.

Files:

• init.h (modified) (1 diff)

init.h

@@ -2909 +2909 @@
   ** .pp
   ** Affects the \fI~b\fP and \fI~h\fP search operations described in
-  ** section ``$patterns'' above.  If set, the headers and attachments of
-  ** messages to be searched are decoded before searching.  If unset,
+  ** section ``$patterns''.  If \fIset\fP, the headers and body/attachments of
+  ** messages to be searched are decoded before searching. If \fIunset\fP,
   ** messages are searched as they appear in the folder.
+  ** .pp
+  ** Users searching attachments or for non-ASCII characters should \fIset\fP
+  ** this value because decoding also includes MIME parsing/decoding and possible
+  ** character set conversions. Otherwise mutt will attempt to match against the
+  ** raw message received (for example quoted-printable encoded or with encoded
+  ** headers) which may lead to incorrect search results.
   */
   { "tilde",            DT_BOOL, R_PAGER, OPTTILDE, 0 },