[PATCH v3] notmuch: replace built-in help with exec of man

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Thu Dec 29 05:47:15 PST 2011


On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:11:16 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> From: David Bremner <bremner at debian.org>
> 
> Since we lose the fancy scanning of the commands for which ones take
> search terms, the search terms page SYNOPSIS should be updated.

Here is a more sensible commit message, given that I already did update
the notmuch-search-terms synopis

commit eb1cae6a3a2eda0878357dfddba846c33c11d585
Author: David Bremner <bremner at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 21 21:45:59 2011 -0400

    notmuch: replace built-in help with exec of man
    
    "notmuch help" now relies on a working man installation, and a correct
    setting of MANPATH, for users that install in "unusual" places. This
    should probably noted in NEWS before shipping.
    
    There is still some small duplication of docs as the one line
    summaries are hard coded in the binary. This seems preferable to
    complicated script games, at least as long was we are using a
    presentation level markup like nroff.

 notmuch.c |  482 +++++--------------------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 447 deletions(-)


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