From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: have "notmuch help" call man?
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:35:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr9wgpys.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkescxp5.fsf@zancas.localnet>
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:01:42 -0400, 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).
Hey, David. I am absolutely in favor of this idea. I'm a fan of the
git help interface, so the more we can emulate that, and make it so we
only have to maintain documentation in one place, then that's a huge win
in my mind.
jamie.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-16 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-16 16:01 have "notmuch help" call man? David Bremner
2011-12-16 16:41 ` Adam Wolfe Gordon
2011-12-16 18:17 ` Kazuo Teramoto
2011-12-16 21:35 ` Jameson Graef Rollins [this message]
2011-12-17 9:56 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-12-20 4:16 ` David Bremner
2011-12-22 3:43 ` David Bremner
2011-12-22 4:53 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-12-22 10:49 ` David Bremner
2011-12-27 0:35 ` David Bremner
2011-12-29 2:24 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-29 13:11 ` [PATCH v3] notmuch: replace built-in help with exec of man David Bremner
2011-12-29 13:47 ` David Bremner
2011-12-30 18:50 ` Austin Clements
2011-12-31 19:25 ` David Bremner
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