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Enter a term you want to search for. Hints:

"Plain text" searches -- terms like "reply to messages" or "outputting" -- do not work in this index. Single words, without endings like "ing" or "s", usually work best. (The searches above would be better as "reply" or "output".)
Upper and lower case don't matter; A and a are the same.
If you enter part of a word, I'll search for any word that contains those characters. For example, if you want to find directory or directories, you can search for director.
If you type more than one word (with a space between), I'll search for them as a phrase. For example, enter mh profile to search for entries about the MH profile.
You can use UNIX egrep -i regular expressions. (More on that below.)
The index has three levels. You can search multiple levels by putting a comma (,) between levels. For example, here's what the three levels look like, in the non-searchable version, in your browser:

exmh

aliases
background processing
commands

display
geometry
Insert @

cutting and pasting

To search for exmh commands, which is split across two levels, you would enter the search
```
    exmh, commands
```
and you would get back these three entries from the searchable index:
```
    exmh, commands, display
    exmh, commands, geometry
    exmh, commands, Insert
```

You can also use UNIX egrep -i regular expressions. For example, there are two ways to search for either "exmh commands" or "exmh, commands":

enter two separate searches, or
use this egrep regular expression which means "the word exmh, optionally followed by a comma, then a space and the word commands":
```
    exmh,? commands
```

Here's another example. To search for Content-type:, Content-transfer-encoding:, Content-ID:, and Content-Description:, enter:

    content-(type|transfer-encoding|id|description):

The egrep anchors ^ and $ are searched for literally, not as anchors. I can't search for ` (backquote) or " (doublequote).

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Last change $Date: 1996/07/13 02:34:07 $

This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely-available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.

Jerry Peek <jpeek@jpeek.com>