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diff --git a/doc/specify-user-id.texi b/doc/specify-user-id.texi index 2eee0245a..c49edada4 100644 --- a/doc/specify-user-id.texi +++ b/doc/specify-user-id.texi @@ -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 |