Re: have "notmuch help" call man?

Subject: Re: have "notmuch help" call man?

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:41:58 -0700

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:01, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
> Currently help strings are compiled into the notmuch binary. This is a
> bit a of pain, since we have the same help text in two places.
> What do you think about having "notmuch help foo" invoke "man
> notmuch-foo" and create appropriate man pages (or links).

I really like this git-style idea.  An additional plus is that long
help (e.g. notmuch help show) would be automatically paged, avoiding a
lot of !!|less.

-- 
Adam Wolfe Gordon

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