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Lars Kotthoff
d34720e7b3 config: allow custom separators in author lists
Allow distinguishing between commas separating authors and separating
first and last names.

Amended by db: reformat NEWS entry and commit message. Tweaked
whitespace in lib/thread.cc.
2024-07-26 15:59:11 +09:00
Jakub Wilk
1b878877d9 doc: fix typos 2023-04-13 11:14:58 -03:00
David Bremner
a554690d6a lib: index attachments with mime types matching index.as_text
Instead of skipping indexing all attachments, we check of a (user
configured) mime type that is indexable as text.
2023-04-02 19:24:43 -03:00
Michael J Gruber
a5f7efd722 doc: mark --output=summary as default
`notmuch search` behaves differently depending on the output option: It
either outputs information pertaining to all threads with matching
messages (summary, threads) or to all matching messages (messages,
files, tags). The man page refres solely to the former in the main
description.

Help the user by clearly marking `summary` as the default output option.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
2022-12-03 09:32:48 -04:00
Robin Jarry
793f298091 cli: add options --offset and --limit to notmuch show
notmuch search does not output header values. However, when browsing
through a large email corpus, it can be time saving to be able to
paginate without running notmuch show for each message/thread.

Add --offset and --limit options to notmuch show. This is inspired from
commit 796b629c3b ("cli: add options --offset and --limit to notmuch
search").

Update man page, shell completion and add a test case to ensure it works
as expected.

Cc: Tim Culverhouse <tim@timculverhouse.com>
Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
2022-11-05 13:18:15 -04:00
David Bremner
bf64c48855 doc: add some documentation about duplicate files.
This is mainly motivated by the new emacs-UI features to select
duplicates, but hopefully it will help demystify things for users of
the CLI as well.
2022-08-11 07:32:04 -03:00
David Bremner
429924b28f doc/notmuch: merge two sections on external commands.
When adding the description of the propagation of NOTMUCH_CONFIG, I
missed that there was already a section on external commands, with a
different title.
2022-08-06 09:20:24 -03:00
David Bremner
24decfc1dd CLI/reply: support --duplicate argument
We want the reply used to match that shown e.g. in the emacs
interface. As a first step provide that functionality on the command
line.

Schema does not need updating as the duplicate key was already
present (with a constant value of 1).
2022-07-30 08:45:15 -03:00
David Bremner
cef5eaaef6 CLI/show: initial support for --duplicate for (raw output only)
Add command line argument --duplicate, analogous with that already
supported for notmuch-search.

Use of a seperate function for _get_filename is mainly a form of
documentation at this point.

md5sum is of course a weak hash, but it is good enough for
this (non-adversarial) test suite use.
2022-07-30 08:39:13 -03:00
David Bremner
bf5eacbe7e CLI/git: add --format-version argument to init subcommand
This is primarily intended to support testing upward compatibility
with legacy repos.
2022-07-07 07:05:55 -03:00
David Bremner
6219e7380a CL/git: add format version 1
The original nmbug format (now called version 0) creates 1
subdirectory of 'tags/' per message. This causes problems for more
than (roughly) 100k messages.

Version 1 introduces 2 layers of hashed directories. This scheme was
chose to balance the number of subdirectories with the number of extra
directories (and git objects) created via hashing.

This should be upward compatible in the sense that old repositories
will continue to work with the updated notmuch-git.
2022-07-07 06:56:05 -03:00
David Bremner
7d1e5a5348 CLI/git: add safety checks for checkout and commit
Commits or checkouts that modify a large fraction of the messages in
the database should be relatively rare (and in some automated process,
probably non-existent). For initial setup, where such operations are
expected, the user can pass --force.
2022-06-17 08:40:19 -03:00
David Bremner
99e85823c8 CLI/git: support configuration for repo location / prefix
This is probably more convenient than always passing a command line
argument.

Use notmuch-config for consistency with other notmuch CLI tools.

Now that there is something relevant in the config files, test the
--config option.
2022-06-17 08:40:19 -03:00
David Bremner
8ed68c1bbe CLI/git: change defaults for repo and prefix
The previous defaults were not suitable for personal (i.e. not
bugtracking for notmuch development) use.

Provide two ways for the user to select nmbug compatible defaults;
command line argument and checking the name of the script.
2022-06-17 08:40:19 -03:00
David Bremner
e50a413906 doc/notmuch-git: initial documentation
This is mainly derived from the various help outputs from the script,
with some massaging of markup and addition of links.
2022-06-17 08:40:19 -03:00
David Bremner
a5504e8b1c CLI: document handling of --config for external commands
Create a section of the notmuch(1) manpage to have some place to put
this documentation.
2022-06-13 07:28:35 -03:00
David Bremner
306b7028d2 doc: define and use semantic markup for configuration items
This makes sure each configuration item is cross referenceable without
extra markup, and also adds index entries.
2022-05-20 22:40:32 -03:00
David Bremner
999706c4d5 doc: use hyperlinks for config options in notmuch-insert(1)
The tradeoff is no bold/italic in the man pages to get actual
hyperlinks in the html output.
2022-02-20 09:33:56 -04:00
David Bremner
75f86b39c3 doc: add configuration section to notmuch-insert(1)
This is partially redudant given some existing cross references, but
it is useful to have all of the config keys listed in one place, to
help keep track of them if nothing else.
2022-02-20 09:33:56 -04:00
David Bremner
8060022bdf doc: add configuration section to notmuch-new(1)
Increase discoverability.
2022-02-20 09:33:56 -04:00
David Bremner
69289c5d62 doc: alphabetize options in notmuch-config(1)
Originally (I think) these were in the order generated by notmuch
setup. As the number of options grows, and several are not in the
initial setup generated file, the original order becomes less useful
for users. This commit alphabetizes the keys to help users
search. There is only one content change, an added cross-reference
from user.other_email to user.primary_email.
2022-02-20 09:33:56 -04:00
David Bremner
3bf6487359 doc: document new option show.extra_headers
Increase discoverability by cross referencing from the notmuch-show
manual entry to the notmuch-config manual entry.
2022-01-25 07:51:48 -04:00
Cédric Hannotier
f9ffc5f433 doc: mail store is given by database.mail_root
The mail store directory is given by database.mail_root,
which can be different from database.path.

However, notmuch-insert documentation was still referencing the latter
as the provider of the maildir directory instead of the former.
2022-01-03 08:07:13 -04:00
David Bremner
1e7d33961e Merge branch 'release' 2021-12-04 09:27:30 -04:00
David Bremner
d7f9572413 python-cffi: switch to notmuch_database_{open,create}_with_config
Since release 0.32, libnotmuch provides searching for database and
configuration paths. This commit changes the python module notmuch2 to
use those facilities.

This fixes the bug reported in [1], along with a couple of the
deprecation warnings in the python bindings.

Database.default_path is deprecated, since it no longer faithfully
reflects what libnotmuch is doing, and it is also no longer used in
the bindings themselves.

This commit choose the default of config=CONFIG.EMPTY (equivalent to
passing "" to notmuch_database_open_with_config).  This makes the
change upward compatible API-wise (at least as far as the test suite
verifies), but changing the default to CONFIG.SEARCH would probably be
more convenient for bindings users.

[1]: id:87h7d4wp6b.fsf@tethera.net
2021-12-04 08:42:31 -04:00
David Bremner
00fdf10937 doc: remove explicit formatting of terms in definition lists
Sphinx-doc already formats the terms appropriately for a given
backend (bold in html and man). `makeinfo` complains noisily about
formatting inside a @item if we add our own explicit formatting.

This change may change the formatting in the info output. On the other
hand, the existing use of quotes for bold is not that great anyway.

In some places blank lines were removed to preserve the logical
structure of a definition list.
2021-10-25 08:25:22 -03:00
David Bremner
81b9dbd110 CLI/config support saving s-expression queries
This commit does not enable using saved s-expression queries, only
saving and retrieving them from the config file or the database. Use
in queries will be enabled in a following commit.
2021-09-04 17:07:19 -07:00
David Bremner
be6edee496 doc: document database search algorithm.
Essentially a translation of the function _choose_database_path for
human consumption. As a bonus, document environment variable
NOTMUCH_DATABASE
2021-08-21 07:54:44 -07:00
David Bremner
dd91621d80 replace references to freenode with references to libera
I left the reference to freenode in the test suite data, since it is
historical.
2021-07-06 17:20:03 -03:00
jao
32f42581e3 doc: new notmuch show --sort and related emacs commands
New --sort CLI option documented in notmuch-show's man page, and
notmuch-search-toggle-order mentioned in doc/notmuch-emacs.rst and
devel/emacs-keybindings.org (in the latter, there's also some
whitespace changes in a table introduced by org-mode).
2021-07-03 20:38:34 -03:00
David Bremner
42b5cb53ef doc: document database.autocommit variable
This exposes some database internals that most users will probably not
understand.
2021-06-27 14:04:43 -03:00
David Bremner
4b0c6fb2f1 Merge branch 'release' 2021-06-25 09:34:29 -03:00
David Bremner
5be9e024d1 doc: tweak hook configuration documentation.
Add a historical note, and hint to look below for more about hooks.
Capitalized the heading for consistency, removed blank line.
2021-06-23 08:42:48 -03:00
Jani Nikula
1222cba7e4 doc: example command-line option reference
Example reference to a command-line option using the option role
reference. This creates a hyperlink in html, and the usual boldface
style in man page. This could be used throughout the man pages.
2021-05-22 16:47:32 -03:00
Jani Nikula
f2e2f2aa96 doc: use program and option directives to document options
Use the program and option directives to document the subcommand
options. This unifies a lot of option documentation throughout.

This also makes it possible to reference options with :option:`--foo`
(within .. program::) or :option:`subcommand --foo` (globally). This
is left for later work.

See https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/domains.html#directive-program

Note: There is a lot of indentation change, but intentionally there is
no reflow. Using 'git diff -w' or 'git show -w' to ignore white space
changes makes this a very easy change to review.
2021-05-22 16:43:24 -03:00
Jani Nikula
574b2436ee doc: use envvar directive and role for environment variables
Make man1/notmuch.rst the single point of truth for describing notmuch
environment variables. Use the envvar directive for that, and
reference them with the envvar role.

Drive-by cleanup configuration file and hook directory search order
documentation.
2021-05-22 16:41:20 -03:00
Jani Nikula
ff4e81ac57 doc: cross-reference notmuch man pages with actual links
Add internal hyperlink targets for man pages and cross-reference them
using the any role reference. There are a number of alternatives to
accomplish this, but this seems like the combination that retains the
man page section number and the same boldface style in the man pages.

As a bonus, we get sanity checking on the links; for example
notmuch-search-terms.rst had a reference to notmuch-properties(1)
i.e. the wrong section.

The obvious semantic follow-up change would be to only have meaningful
"see also" references instead of having them all everywhere.
2021-05-22 16:38:56 -03:00
Jani Nikula
3baa61e0e5 doc: use manpage role references to external man pages
Using manpage role references generates helpful links in html
documentation, while retaining the same boldface style in the man
pages.

The external man page site is configurable. The Debian manpage site
seems like a good fit for Notmuch.
2021-05-22 09:56:52 -03:00
David Bremner
bfbe2e55f2 doc: document database.backup_dir
Most users will not need to change this, but documenting it helps
preserve the interface.
2021-05-10 11:14:57 -03:00
David Bremner
a7de593f72 doc: document (tersely) the intended behaviour of relative paths. 2021-05-10 11:14:57 -03:00
David Bremner
dd9112e7d8 CLI/config: default to storing all config in external files
Previously the fact that some configuration options were only stored
in the database (and thus editing the config file had no effect) was a
source of user confusion. This was fixed with the series ending at
d9af0af164.

On the other hand, the underlying partition of config options into
those stored by default in the database and those stored in the config
file remained. This is also confusing, since now some invocations of
"notmuch config set" modify the config file, and others silently
modify the database instead.

With this commit, it is up to the user to decide which configuration
to modify. A new "--database" option is provided for notmuch config to
enable modifying the configuration information in the database;
otherwise the default is to update an external config file.
2021-03-27 09:26:14 -03:00
David Bremner
e823d05ae6 lib: support splitting mail from database location.
Introduce a new configuration value for the mail root, and use it to
locate mail messages in preference to the database.path (which
previously implied the mail messages were also in this location.

Initially only a subset of the CLI is tested in a split
configuration. Further changes will be needed for the remainder of the
CLI to work in split configurations.
2021-03-20 07:39:12 -03:00
David Bremner
d9af0af164 doc: describe new config framework
Remove STORED IN DATABASE discussion, describe search rules.
Currently profiles seem a bit pointless. They will make more sense
when they apply to databases as well.
2021-02-06 19:59:47 -04:00
Tomi Ollila
507d2f07a6 doc: field processor support now always included, adjust manual pages
The features that require field processor support, are now just
documented w/o mentioning **Xapian Field Processors**' is needed
for those.

Replaced "compact" and "field_processor" with "retry_lock" in
build_with config option, as it is currently the only one that
is optionally excluded. The former 2 are now documented as
features always included.

Dropped one 'we' "passive" in notmuch-search-terms.rst. It was the
only one, and inconsistent with rest of the documentation in that
file.

Dropped message about conditional open-ended ranges support, as
those are now always supported.
2020-06-06 07:54:34 -03:00
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
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
018ad3703b Drop deprecated/unused crypto.gpg_path
crypto.gpg_path was only used when we built against gmime versions
before 3.0.  Since we now depend on gmime 3.0.3 or later, it is
meaningless.

The removal of the field from the _notmuch_config struct would be an
ABI change if that struct were externally exposed, but it is not, so
it's safe to unilaterally remove it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2020-02-19 08:17:49 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
aba7fb375b doc: clean up manpage description of "notmuch-config list" output
The escaping in the description of the output of "notmuch-config list"
appears to have been inherited from some previous attempts at
documentation.  It leaked out in the actual generated manpage
documentation, where it looks like this:

       list   Every  configuration  item is printed to stdout, each on a
              separate line of the form:

                 *section*.\ *item*\ =\ *value*

This simplification cleans up the overescaping.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2020-01-16 06:38:29 -04:00
David Bremner
9dedb23b47 doc: document user header indexing.
It's a bit odd that the primary documentation is in notmuch-config,
but it is consistent with the "query:" prefix.
2019-05-25 07:21:21 -03:00
Michal Sojka
1e69bb6f46 doc: document notmuch new --verbose 2019-03-31 11:59:46 -03:00
Peter Wang
6784d5bc60 doc: fix references to search.exclude_tags
The documentation incorrectly referred to a configuration item
"search.tag_exclude" in some places, instead of "search.exclude_tags".
2019-01-27 08:18:38 -04:00