From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1015B431FAF for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:46:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B2qy-MqFmFKh for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA1C8431FAE for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-142166230117.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([142.166.230.117] helo=rocinante.cs.unb.ca) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S9kPc-0008JK-DN; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:46:44 -0300 Received: from bremner by rocinante.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1S8gvn-0006Bh-V6; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:51:35 -0400 From: David Bremner To: Andrei POPESCU , Austin Clements Subject: Re: [RFC] http://notmuchmail.org/searching/ [was: Re: Improving notmuch query documentation] In-Reply-To: <20120316222952.GA4510@sid.nuvreauspam> References: <20120316222952.GA4510@sid.nuvreauspam> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+166~gd2ef4ed (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:51:35 -0400 Message-ID: <87mx7gxfy0.fsf@rocinante.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam_bar: - Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:46:49 -0000 On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:29:52 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 15 mar 12, 22:11:24, Austin Clements wrote: > As I see it, the manpage (specifically section 'SEARCH SYNTAX' needs to > be expanded somewhat and 'help search-terms' shortened (a lot). > > Does this make sense? > I don't see that happening in the near future since all notmuch help does is call man. As Austin said, you're welcome to improve the man pages, but making them diverge from the help would require a complete rewrite of all of the help. d