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32 Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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33 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes
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62 Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:
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64 > But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch
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65 > so incredibly awesome. It's an email swiss army knife that's there when
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66 > you need it. But given that even I often need to look at the man page
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67 > during my occasional CLI usage, I just don't want to see it get to
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70 Well, maybe this should be a discussion about how to organize the CLI
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71 documentation so that more commonly used options are easy to find. That
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72 would indeed be a side effect of making less commonly used options
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73 controlled by environment variables, and documenting the environment
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74 variables at the bottom of the man pages as per tradition. But I don't
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75 think this is the only way or even the best way to achieve good
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