8.4 Searching

Mew provides the following method to search messages:

‘?’

Put the ‘*’ mark onto messages in this follder, which are matched to a specified pattern. Either ‘mewl’ or ‘grep’ is called according to the specified pattern.

‘C-u?’

‘?’ with a region specified.

‘/’

Make selection with messages in this follder, which are matched to a specified pattern. Either ‘mewl’ or ‘grep’ is called according to the specified pattern.

‘C-u/’

‘/’ with a region specified.

We can also search messages with a search engine, including Spotlight, Windows Desktop Search, etc. This feature is supported by the following commands.

‘k?’

Put the ‘*’ mark onto messages in this follder, which are matched to a specified pattern.

‘k/’

Make selection with messages in all folders, which are matched to a specified pattern.

‘C-uk/’

Make selection with messages in specified folders, which are matched to a specified pattern. If you want to specify multiple folders, separate them with ",". You can also use a wildcar "*".

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