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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
David Bremner
d7ddfa0d0e emacs: drop setting mail-user-agent, and document how to set it
After some discussion [1], I decided it is better to make notmuch users
who rely on this behaviour customize mail-user-agent. This is
consistent with the behaviour of other emacs mail packages.

[1]: id:87k0nuhfrk.fsf@toryanderson.com
2021-06-04 20:05:31 -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
Luis Henriques
0ab28068c1 doc: fix variable name in documentation
Variable 'notmuch-saved-searches-sort-function' does not exist;
'notmuch-saved-search-sort-function' is the correct name.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org>
2021-05-19 08:53:53 -03:00
Jani Nikula
59c953656d doc: fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x
Sphinx 4.0 changed the default value of man_make_section_directory
from False to True. We create the section directories and move the
files manually, so fix the immediate man build failure by disabling
the feature.

The Sphinx documentation on this [1] is confusing, and has the change
backwards. Git history says the default changed from False to True.

[1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-man_make_section_directory
2021-05-19 08:52:48 -03:00
Luis Henriques
e715ec9371 doc: fix variable name in documentation
Variable 'notmuch-saved-searches-sort-function' does not exist;
'notmuch-saved-search-sort-function' is the correct name.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org>
2021-05-19 08:35:25 -03:00
Jani Nikula
5197d3e11f doc: fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x
Sphinx 4.0 changed the default value of man_make_section_directory
from False to True. We create the section directories and move the
files manually, so fix the immediate man build failure by disabling
the feature.

The Sphinx documentation on this [1] is confusing, and has the change
backwards. Git history says the default changed from False to True.

[1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-man_make_section_directory
2021-05-19 08:26:22 -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
4c79a2dabe notmuch 0.31.4 release
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Merge tag '0.31.4'

notmuch 0.31.4 release
2021-02-18 08:47:53 -04:00
David Bremner
346b999ae6 doc: bump copyright year 2021-02-18 07:55:28 -04:00
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
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
c4cce82fa0 docs: drop deprecated doxygen TCL_SUBST flag
notmuch has no tcl code, and doxygen upstream is deprecating/removing
tcl support anyway:
48a7afc0ca
2021-01-09 11:25:43 -04:00
David Bremner
ed7ca948ae build/docs: move docstring prereq to file targets
Under a sufficiently high level of parallelism [1] there seems to be a
a race condition that allows sphinx-build to start running before the
docstrings are extracted. This change moves the docstring stamp from
the phony targets sphinx-html and sphinx-info to the file targets that
they depend on. I'm not sure why this makes things better, but I am
fairly confident it does not make things worse, and experimentally it
seems to eliminate the race condition.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976934
2020-12-09 21:55:38 -04:00
Ralph Seichter
981d5a0168 Rename version to version.txt
Building Notmuch on macOS is known to cause problems because the Notmuch
distribution archive contains two files named "version". These names
clash with the <version> header as defined in C++20. Therefore, the
existing naming will likely become a problem on other platforms as well,
once compilers adopt the new standard.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de>
Amended-by: db s/keyword/header/ in commit message.
2020-10-30 16:14:24 -03:00
Jonas Bernoulli
c454135376 emacs: Use makefile-gmake-mode in Makefile*s
Use `makefile-gmake-mode' instead of `makefile-mode' because the
former also highlights ifdef et al. while the latter does not.

"./Makefile.global" and one "Makefile.local" failed to specify any
major mode at all but doing so is necessary because Emacs does not
automatically figure out that these are Makefiles (of any flavor).
2020-08-09 21:14:36 -03:00
David Bremner
a05da45523 doc: add new python bindings to main documentation tree.
A separate conf.py and doc directory (or will be needed if someone wants
to build the bindings docs separately from notmuch.
2020-07-15 08:37:11 -03:00
David Bremner
0e03e2d45e doc: replace use of environment variables with a generated config
It is getting unwieldy to pass configuration options on the
sphinx-build command line, and I anticipate further use of
conditionals.

As far as I could tell, execing a string is the idiomatic way to
emulate include in Python.
2020-07-15 08:32:15 -03:00
Jonas Witschel
a962842d9b doc: make gzipped man pages reproducible
gzip includes the name of the uncompressed file and its modification
timestamp into the compressed archive. The latter makes it hard to
reproduce the generated files bit for bit at a later time, so omit this
information from the archive using the "--no-name" option. This is a
reproducibility best practice, see
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInGzipHeaders
2020-07-11 13:57:17 -03:00
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
David Bremner
01fe987eec bump date in documentation 2020-06-01 20:58:52 -03:00
David Bremner
ee8dba1c30 doc: fix for out-of-tree builds of notmuch-emacs docs
The sphinx-doc include directive does not have the ability to include
files from the build tree, so we replace the include with reading the
files in conf.py. The non-trivial downside of this is that the emacs
docstrings are now defined for every rst source file. They are
namespaced with docstring::, so hopefully there will not be any
surprises. One thing that is noticable is a small (absolute) time
penalty in running sphinx-doc.
2020-06-01 09:07:50 -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
bd0b5abd5d doc: Drop obsolete MSCGEN_PATH, PERL_PATH from doxygen configuration
Since doxygen 1.8.16, MSCGEN_PATH and PERL_PATH are obsolete:

MSCGEN_PATH:
  873e0ccfbe
PERL_PATH:
  6d1535c38f

I don't think that the notmuch builds ever depended on them in the
first place, and including them in the default config yields the
following two warnings:

```
doxygen ./doc/doxygen.cfg
warning: Tag 'PERL_PATH' at line 267 of file './doc/doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
         To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
warning: Tag 'MSCGEN_PATH' at line 272 of file './doc/doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
         To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
```

Remove them to avoid the warnings.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2020-04-01 22:46:58 -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
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
4b1a8fd183 index: repair "Mixed Up" messages before indexing.
When encountering a message that has been mangled in the "mixed up"
way by an intermediate MTA, notmuch should instead repair it and index
the repaired form.

When it does this, it also associates the index.repaired=mixedup
property with the message.  If a problem is found with this repair
process, or an improved repair process is proposed later, this should
make it easy for people to reindex the relevant message.  The property
will also hopefully make it easier to diagnose this particular problem
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-09-15 19:07:06 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
9829533e92 index: avoid indexing legacy-display parts
When we notice a legacy-display part during indexing, it makes more
sense to avoid indexing it as part of the message body.

Given that the protected subject will already be indexed, there is no
need to index this part at all, so we skip over it.

If this happens during indexing, we set a property on the message:
index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-09-01 08:45:30 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1b29822cf5 repair: set up codebase for repair functionality
This adds no functionality directly, but is a useful starting point
for adding new repair functionality.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-09-01 08:20:25 -03:00
David Bremner
a6a8df7e03 build: drop variable HAVE_EMACS. use WITH_EMACS instead
The extra flexibility of having both HAVE_EMACS (for yes, there is an
emacs we can use) and WITH_EMACS (the user wants emacs support) lead
to confusion and bugs. We now just force WITH_EMACS to 0 if no
suitable emacs is detected.
2019-06-12 19:58:30 -03:00
David Bremner
3ec47e1165 doc: Don't install emacs docs when they are not built
In 40b025 we stopped building the notmuch-emacs documentation if
HAVE_EMACS=0 (i.e. no emacs was detected by configure). Unfortunately
we continued to try to install the (non-existent) documentation, which
causes build/install failures.

As a bonus, we also avoid installing the documentation if the user
configures --without-emacs.

Thanks to Ralph Seichter for reporting the problem, and testing
previous versions of this fix.
2019-06-10 21:48:03 -03:00
David Bremner
71bf459596 doc: don't build notmuch-emacs.info for configure --without-emacs
Since the docstrings are not built in the case of --without-emacs,
even if emacs is detected, don't let sphinx build the emacs docs. This
avoids a large number of error messages due to missing includes. It's
actually a bit surprising sphinx doesn't generate an error for the
missing include files.
2019-06-10 21:46:55 -03:00
David Bremner
6edc073e44 doc: use separate doctrees for distinct builders
It seems our previous attempt with order-only targets was not
sufficient to avoid problems with sphinx-builds doctree cache [0].
Looking around at other people's approaches [1], using separate
doctrees was suggested. I guess there might be a slight loss of
efficiency, but it seems more robust.

[0]: build failures were first noticed in Debian experimental, but I was able to duplicate it in
     my usual build environment about 1 in 8 builds.

[1]: in particular
     9e3fc1657d
2019-06-03 07:35:30 -03:00
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
David Bremner
40b025c5f1 doc: exclude notmuch-emacs.rst if emacs is not present.
This will still generate a warning about an excluded document in the
toctree, but it cuts down on the noise quite a lot.
2019-04-24 06:53:13 -03:00
David Bremner
4f0fe36c47 doc: use stamp file for html docs
These are less time consuming than the texi docs to rebuild (because
the texi rebuild triggers info rebuild), but still take noticable time.
2019-04-24 06:53:13 -03:00
David Bremner
f0399db513 doc: use stamp file to control rebuilding texi
Apparently the sphinx-doc texinfo builder is not smart enough to only
rebuild those files where the source has changed.
2019-04-24 06:53:07 -03:00
David Bremner
319dd95ebb lib: add 'body:' field, stop indexing headers twice.
The new `body:` field (in Xapian terms) or prefix (in slightly
sloppier notmuch) terms allows matching terms that occur only in the
body.

Unprefixed query terms should continue to match anywhere (header or
body) in the message.

This follows a suggestion of Olly Betts to use the facility (since
Xapian 1.0.4) to add the same field with multiple prefixes. The double
indexing of previous versions is thus replaced with a query time
expension of unprefixed query terms to the various prefixed
equivalent.

Reindexing will be needed for 'body:' searches to work correctly;
otherwise they will also match messages where the term occur in
headers (demonstrated by the new tests in T530-upgrade.sh)
2019-04-17 08:48:16 -03:00
Michal Sojka
1e69bb6f46 doc: document notmuch new --verbose 2019-03-31 11:59:46 -03:00