Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:53:53 -0400

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, Jani Nikula, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:

> But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch
> so incredibly awesome.  It's an email swiss army knife that's there when
> you need it.  But given that even I often need to look at the man page
> during my occasional CLI usage, I just don't want to see it get to
> overcrowded.

Well, maybe this should be a discussion about how to organize the CLI
documentation so that more commonly used options are easy to find. That
would indeed be a side effect of making less commonly used options
controlled by environment variables, and documenting the environment
variables at the bottom of the man pages as per tradition. But I don't
think this is the only way or even the best way to achieve good
documentation.

d

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