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Austin Clements fad4f21cb7 emacs: Support overriding help and describing prefix action
Traditionally, function documentation strings are intended primarily
for programmers, rather than users.  They're written from the
perspective of calling the function, not interactively invoking it.
They're only ever displayed along with the function prototype (and
often refer to argument names).  And built-in help commands like
`describe-bindings' show the name of the command, not its
documentation.

The notmuch help system is like `describe-bindings', but tries to be
more user-friendly by displaying documentation strings, rather than
Elisp command names.  For most commands, this is fine, but for some
the "programmer description" is inappropriate for interactive use.
This is particularly noticeable for commands that take an optional
prefix argument.

This patch adds support for two symbol properties: notmuch-doc and
notmuch-prefix-doc, which let a command override its interactive
documentation and provide separate documentation for its prefixed
invocation.  If notmuch-prefix-doc is present, we add an extra line to
the help giving the prefixed key sequence along with the documentation
for the prefixed command.
2013-10-07 20:31:53 -03:00
bindings version: set new version and release date 2013-07-28 11:28:03 -03:00
compat timegm: add portable implementation (Solaris support) 2013-08-23 17:57:35 +02:00
completion completion: update README about bash completion dependencies 2013-03-30 18:31:01 -04:00
contrib contrib: pick: remove temporary keybinding 2013-10-02 08:47:39 -03:00
debian debian: remove unneeded notmuch-mutt dependencies 2013-09-08 22:41:48 -03:00
devel TODO: keybindings for next/previous thread done 2013-05-31 21:51:54 -03:00
emacs emacs: Support overriding help and describing prefix action 2013-10-07 20:31:53 -03:00
lib lib/cli: pass GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS to g_mime_init() 2013-09-14 14:13:43 -03:00
man cli: add --include-html option to notmuch show 2013-08-27 07:57:36 -03:00
packaging packaging: fedora: add ruby bindings 2013-06-02 08:03:47 -03:00
parse-time-string timegm: add portable implementation (Solaris support) 2013-08-23 17:57:35 +02:00
performance-test build: fix out-of-tree builds 2013-05-26 18:49:04 -03:00
test lib/cli: pass GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS to g_mime_init() 2013-09-14 14:13:43 -03:00
util string-util: Disallow empty prefixes in parse_boolean_term 2013-01-07 20:55:21 -04:00
vim debian: build notmuch-vim again 2013-07-28 13:48:02 -03:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: changed one-char comment prefix '; ' to two; '; ; ' 2012-01-22 08:41:37 -04:00
.gitignore emacs: update .gitignore 2013-06-02 20:44:26 -03:00
AUTHORS Drop date.c file, (use identical function from GMime instead). 2009-11-02 14:36:33 -08:00
command-line-arguments.c cli: make the command line parser's errors more informative. 2012-09-01 23:03:36 -03:00
command-line-arguments.h command-line-arguments.[ch]: make arrays of keyword descriptors const 2011-12-13 00:00:44 -04:00
configure timegm: add portable implementation (Solaris support) 2013-08-23 17:57:35 +02:00
COPYING Add copy of GNU General Public License (version 3). 2009-10-21 16:25:08 -07:00
COPYING-GPL-3 Add copy of GNU General Public License (version 3). 2009-10-21 16:25:08 -07:00
crypto.c crypto: return NULL cryptoctx if protocol string is empty. 2013-07-20 09:13:48 -03:00
debugger.c notmuch-new: Only install SIGALRM if not running under gdb 2009-11-22 05:36:36 +01:00
dump-restore-private.h notmuch-dump: add --format=(batch-tag|sup) 2012-12-08 10:40:54 -04:00
gmime-filter-reply.c Filter out carriage-returns in show and reply output. 2009-11-18 23:34:43 +01:00
gmime-filter-reply.h Typsos 2009-11-18 03:21:36 -08:00
hooks.c cli: introduce the concept of user defined hooks 2011-12-11 13:57:31 -04:00
INSTALL Recommend libgmime-2.6-dev in INSTALL 2012-05-24 21:54:30 -03:00
Makefile build: fix out-of-tree builds 2013-05-26 18:49:04 -03:00
Makefile.local reply: Use RFC 2822/MIME wholly for text format template 2013-08-17 09:06:08 +02:00
mime-node.c cli: mime node: fix compiler warning when building against gmime 2.4 2013-04-14 19:49:16 -03:00
NEWS NEWS: cli options for improved duplicate message handling 2013-08-24 11:44:31 +02:00
notmuch-client.h cli: add --include-html option to notmuch show 2013-08-27 07:57:36 -03:00
notmuch-config.c notmuch-config: use strchr(), not index() (Solaris support) 2013-08-24 11:37:51 +02:00
notmuch-count.c cli: add --output=files option to notmuch count 2013-08-24 11:42:39 +02:00
notmuch-dump.c cli: move config open/close to main() from subcommands 2013-03-08 07:54:41 -04:00
notmuch-insert.c insert: add --create-folder option 2013-07-04 00:05:11 -03:00
notmuch-new.c cli: move config open/close to main() from subcommands 2013-03-08 07:54:41 -04:00
notmuch-reply.c cli: add --include-html option to notmuch show 2013-08-27 07:57:36 -03:00
notmuch-restore.c cli: move config open/close to main() from subcommands 2013-03-08 07:54:41 -04:00
notmuch-search.c cli: add --duplicate=N option to notmuch search 2013-08-24 11:41:55 +02:00
notmuch-setup.c cli: move config open/close to main() from subcommands 2013-03-08 07:54:41 -04:00
notmuch-show.c cli: add --include-html option to notmuch show 2013-08-27 07:57:36 -03:00
notmuch-tag.c tag-util: move out 'tag' command-line check 2013-06-29 14:36:07 -03:00
notmuch-time.c Add some const correctness to talloc 'ctx' parameter. 2009-11-17 19:10:37 -08:00
notmuch.c lib/cli: pass GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS to g_mime_init() 2013-09-14 14:13:43 -03:00
notmuch.desktop notmuch.desktop: Clarify that this is the emacs interface to notmuch. 2010-01-24 07:30:08 +13:00
query-string.c notmuch: Break notmuch.c up into several smaller files. 2009-11-10 12:03:05 -08:00
README INSTALL/README: Clean up the description of how to run the emacs interface. 2010-06-01 10:51:42 -07:00
sprinter-json.c sprinters: bugfix when NULL passed for a string. 2012-08-12 21:25:01 +02:00
sprinter-sexp.c Adding an S-expression structured output printer. 2012-12-08 09:26:29 -04:00
sprinter-text.c sprinter: add text0 formatter for null character separated text 2012-12-18 17:03:34 -04:00
sprinter.h sprinter: add text0 formatter for null character separated text 2012-12-18 17:03:34 -04:00
tag-util.c tag-util: do not reset list in parse_tag_command_line 2013-06-29 14:36:23 -03:00
tag-util.h tag-util: do not reset list in parse_tag_command_line 2013-06-29 14:36:23 -03:00
version version: set new version and release date 2013-07-28 11:28:03 -03:00

Notmuch - thread-based email index, search and tagging.

Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient
search syntax.

Notmuch is free software, released under the GNU General Public
License version 3 (or later).

Building notmuch
----------------
See the INSTALL file for notes on compiling and installing notmuch.

Running notmuch
---------------
After installing notmuch, start by running "notmuch setup" which will
interactively prompt for configuration information such as your name,
email address, and the directory which contains your mail archive to
be indexed. You can change any answers later by running "notmuch
setup" again or by editing the .notmuch-config file in your home
directory.

With notmuch configured you should next run "notmuch new" which will
index all of your existing mail. This can take a long time, (several
hours) if you have a lot of email, (hundreds of thousands of
files). When new mail is delivered to your mail archive in the future,
you will want to run "notmuch new" again. These runs will be much
faster as they will only index new messages.

Finally, you can prove to yourself that things are working by running
some command-line searches such as "notmuch search
from:someone@example.com" or "notmuch search subject:topic". See
"notmuch help search-terms" for more details on the available search
syntax.

The command-line search output is not expected to be particularly
friendly for day-to-day usage. Instead, it is expected that you will
use an email interface that builds on the notmuch command-line tool or
the libnotmuch library.

Notmuch installs a full-featured email interface for use within
emacs. To use this, first add the following line to your .emacs file:

	(require 'notmuch)

Then, either run "emacs -f notmuch" or execute the command "M-x
notmuch" from within a running emacs.

If you're interested in a non-emacs-based interface to notmuch, then
please join the notmuch community. Various other interfaces are
already in progress, (an interface within vim, a curses interface,
graphical interfaces based on evolution, and various web-based
interfaces). The authors of these interfaces would love further
testing or contribution. See contact information below.

Contacting users and developers
-------------------------------
The website for Notmuch is:

	http://notmuchmail.org

The mailing list address for the notmuch community is:

	notmuch@notmuchmail.org

We welcome any sort of questions, comments, kudos, or code there.

Subscription is not required, (but if you do subscribe you'll avoid
any delay due to moderation). See the website for subscription
information.

There is also an IRC channel dedicated to talk about using and
developing notmuch:

	IRC server:	irc.freenode.net
	Channel:	#notmuch