From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man: update SEE ALSO references in man pages
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:35:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762e8nycn.fsf@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120313173544.GF2787@mit.edu>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:35:44 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Quoth Jani Nikula on Mar 11 at 11:36 pm:
> > Drop references to notmuch-part(1). Reference all man pages. Fix man
> > page section of notmuch-dump(1).
>
> This LGTM, but is it actually what we want? Referencing everything
> from everything seems to defeat the purpose. I would expect
> notmuch(1) to reference everything, but the command manpages to only
> reference notmuch(1) and specific, related commands (e.g., dump and
> restore should reference each other; new should reference hooks;
> count, dump, reply, search, show, and tag should reference
> search-terms; and new, search, and reply should reference config).
Hi Austin, while I agree with you, I think I'll have to leave that bit
for another patch, another time (and possibly another author ;). My
purpose here was to just quickly fix the current references, for which
the logic was that all pages reference all other pages.
BR,
Jani.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-11 21:36 [PATCH] man: update SEE ALSO references in man pages Jani Nikula
2012-03-13 17:35 ` Austin Clements
2012-03-13 18:35 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2012-03-14 1:15 ` David Bremner
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