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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2014-11-07 17:42:37 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2014-11-07 17:42:37 +0000
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gpg: Remove warning message for non-implemented search modes.
* kbx/keybox-search.c (keybox_search): Silently ignore. * doc/specify-user-id.texi: Docuement '@", '+', and '.' search prefixes.
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@@ -85,14 +85,14 @@ with left and right angles.
@end cartouche
-@item By word match.
-All words must match exactly (not case sensitive) but can appear in any
-order in the user ID or a subjects name. Words are any sequences of
-letters, digits, the underscore and all characters with bit 7 set.
+@item By partial match on an email address.
+This is indicated by prefixing the search string with an @code{@@}.
+This uses a substring search but considers only the mail address
+(i.e. inside the angle brackets).
@cartouche
@example
-+Heinrich Heine duesseldorf
+@@heinrichh
@end example
@end cartouche
@@ -156,8 +156,12 @@ Heine
@end example
@end cartouche
-@end itemize
+@item . and + prefixes
+These prefixes are reserved for looking up mails anchored at the end
+and for a word search mode. They are not yet implemented and using
+them is undefined.
+@end itemize
Please note that we have reused the hash mark identifier which was used
in old GnuPG versions to indicate the so called local-id. It is not