[PATCH v2 19/20] man: document 'insert' command
Peter Wang
novalazy at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 17:16:45 PST 2012
Add initial documentation for notmuch insert command.
---
man/Makefile.local | 1 +
man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 man/man1/notmuch-insert.1
diff --git a/man/Makefile.local b/man/Makefile.local
index 72e2a18..216aaa0 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.local
+++ b/man/Makefile.local
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ MAN1 := \
$(dir)/man1/notmuch-count.1 \
$(dir)/man1/notmuch-dump.1 \
$(dir)/man1/notmuch-restore.1 \
+ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-insert.1 \
$(dir)/man1/notmuch-new.1 \
$(dir)/man1/notmuch-reply.1 \
$(dir)/man1/notmuch-search.1 \
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b1c4e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+.TH NOTMUCH-INSERT 1 2012-xx-xx "Notmuch 0.xx"
+.SH NAME
+notmuch-insert \- add a message to the maildir and notmuch database
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+.B notmuch insert
+.RI "[" options "]"
+.RI "[ +<" tag> "|\-<" tag "> ... ]"
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+
+.B notmuch insert
+reads a message from standard input
+and delivers it to the specified maildir folder,
+then incorporates the message into the notmuch database.
+It is an alternative to using a separate tool to deliver
+the message then running
+.B notmuch new
+afterwards.
+
+The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the
+.B new.tags
+configuration option.
+Additional tagging operations may be specified on the command-line:
+tags prefixed by '+' are added while
+those prefixed by '\-' are removed.
+
+Option arguments must appear before any tag operation arguments.
+Supported options for
+.B insert
+include
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.BI "--folder=<" folder ">"
+
+Deliver the message to the specified folder,
+relative to the top-level directory given by the value of
+\fBdatabase.path\fR.
+The default is to deliver to the top-level directory.
+
+.RE
+
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B "--create-folder"
+
+Try to create the folder named by the
+.B "--folder"
+option, if it does not exist.
+Otherwise the folder must already exist for mail
+delivery to succeed.
+
+.RE
+.SH SEE ALSO
+
+\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
+\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1),
+\fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1),
+\fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),
+\fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)
--
1.7.12.1
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