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Daniel Kahn Gillmor
02a2bf1b25 notmuch(1): clarify documentation about --option/value separators
id:CA+Tk8fzRiqxWpd=r8=DRvEewNZXUZgD7MKyRLB1A=R-LxxGEZw@mail.gmail.com
started a thread of discussion that showed that the cli's current
idiosyncrasies around dealing with boolean options were not
understandable.

This attempts to improve the documentation at least (actual changes to
the API might be better, but have not reached consensus).

Note that no one in the discussion thread identified any other
(non-boolean) command-line options that cannot use space as a
separator.  If such an option is identified (or introduced in the
future), it should be added explicitly to this part of the manual.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2020-05-08 08:58:46 -03:00
Jani Nikula
e5e252de55 doc: unify definition list usage across man pages
Make all parameter descriptions etc. use reStructuredText definition
lists with uniform style and indentation. Remove redundant indentation
from around the lists. Remove blank lines between term lines and
definition blocks. Use four spaces for indentation.

This is almost completely whitespace and paragraph reflow changes.
2017-12-31 09:06:11 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
6575b7eb31 doc: add notmuch-properties(7)
We will want a user-facing place to record details about the use of
notmuch properties shortly.  This establishes a new manual page for
that purpose.
2017-10-21 19:52:55 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
6499fce391 doc: make SEE ALSO references one-per-line
This will make future diffs cleaner, make it easier to keep them
alphabetical, and make it easier to scan and search the documentation
sources.
2017-10-18 22:36:39 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
e5beec39d6 add "notmuch reindex" subcommand
This new subcommand takes a set of search terms, and re-indexes the
list of matching messages.
2017-08-01 21:17:47 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
87bdfbc91f Fix orthography 2017-07-18 06:50:44 -03:00
David Bremner
a32dd81a55 cli: add space separator for keyword, string, and int arguments
Defer the complication of optional boolean arguments for later (never?).
2017-07-12 17:46:29 -03:00
Jani Nikula
02421015fd man: document external subcommand handling in notmuch(1)
The documentation for this was overlooked when adding the subcommand
handling. This seems like the proper place for it.
2017-03-07 09:05:50 -04:00
David Bremner
3ba1b938b5 doc: update cross references for notmuch.1
In particular add notmuch-compact(1) (Debian bug #825884)
2016-08-23 20:53:52 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
6a833a6e83 Use https instead of http where possible
Many of the external links found in the notmuch source can be resolved
using https instead of http.  This changeset addresses as many as i
could find, without touching the e-mail corpus or expected outputs
found in tests.
2016-06-05 08:32:17 -03:00
David Bremner
f76d8f82dd cli: add global option "--uuid"
The function notmuch_exit_if_unmatched_db_uuid is split from
notmuch_process_shared_options because it needs an open notmuch
database.

There are two exceptional cases in uuid handling.

1) notmuch config and notmuch setup don't currently open the database,
   so it doesn't make sense to check the UUID.

2) notmuch compact opens the database inside the library, so we either
   need to open the database just to check uuid, or change the API.
2015-08-14 18:23:49 +02:00
David Bremner
653190bf2a cli: enable notmuch --help command
This functionality seems to have been undocumented, if it ever
existed. Document it now.
2015-07-30 07:45:26 +02:00
David Bremner
83e9df98a0 doc: whitespace cleanup for notmuch.rst
replace leading spaces with tabs
2015-07-30 07:45:26 +02:00
David Bremner
9f57b7e8c5 doc: add minimal note about shared options.
The example is a bit silly, but notmuch subcommand --help is actually
not equivalent to "notmuch --help subcommand".
2015-06-05 18:51:15 +02:00
Michal Sojka
9710f0886a doc: Minor fixes related to notmuch-address
- Add notmuch-address to HTML index
- Remove extra '*'
2014-11-13 21:25:07 +01:00
Michal Sojka
5c27136e64 cli: Introduce "notmuch address" command
This moves address-related functionality from search command to the
new address command. The implementation shares almost all code and
some command line options.

Options --offset and --limit were intentionally not included in the
address command, because they refer to messages numbers, which users
do not see in the output. This could confuse users because, for
example, they could see more addresses in the output that what was
specified with --limit. This functionality can be correctly
reimplemented for address subcommand later.

Also useless values of --exclude flag were not included in the address
command.

This was inspired by a patch from Jani Nikula.
2014-11-05 23:19:12 +01:00
David Bremner
d736260385 doc: convert sphinx based docs
This is the output from sphinx-quickstart, massaged a bit, along with
our existing man pages converted to rst.

A skeleton notmuch-emacs manual is also included. It is not suitable
for end user use yet.
2014-03-09 10:41:08 -03:00