[Patch v6 6/6] man: document notmuch tag --batch, --input options

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Mon Dec 10 13:34:12 PST 2012


LGTM.

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, david at tethera.net wrote:
> From: Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org>
>
> ---
>  man/man1/notmuch-tag.1 |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1
> index d23700d..c4e60d3 100644
> --- a/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1
> +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1
> @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ notmuch-tag \- add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms
>  .B notmuch tag
>  .RI "+<" tag ">|\-<" tag "> [...] [\-\-] <" search-term "> [...]"
>  
> +.B notmuch tag
> +.RI "--batch"
> +.RI "[ --input=<" filename "> ]"
> +
> +
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  
>  Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.
> @@ -29,6 +34,51 @@ updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the
>  configuration option is enabled. See \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1) for
>  details.
>  
> +Supported options for
> +.B tag
> +include
> +.RS 4
> +.TP 4
> +.BR \-\-batch
> +
> +Read batch tagging operations from a file (stdin by default). This is more
> +efficient than repeated
> +.B notmuch tag
> +invocations. See
> +.B TAG FILE FORMAT
> +below for the input format. This option is not compatible with
> +specifying tagging on the command line.
> +.RE
> +
> +.RS 4
> +.TP 4
> +.BR "\-\-input=" <filename>
> +
> +Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies
> +.BR --batch .
> +
> +.SH TAG FILE FORMAT
> +
> +The input must consist of lines of the format:
> +
> +.RI "+<" tag ">|\-<" tag "> [...] [\-\-] <" search-term "> [...]"
> +
> +Each line is interpreted similarly to
> +.B notmuch tag
> +command line arguments. The delimiter is one or more spaces ' '. Any
> +characters in <tag> and <search-term>
> +.B may
> +be hex encoded with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal value of the
> +character. Any ' ' and '%' characters in <tag> and <search-terms>
> +.B must
> +be hex encoded (using %20 and %25, respectively). Any characters that
> +are not part of <tag> or <search-terms>
> +.B must not
> +be hex encoded.
> +
> +Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines
> +beginning with '#' are ignored.
> +
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  
>  \fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4


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