From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: david@tethera.net, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2 12/17] man: document notmuch tag --batch,
	--input options
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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:21:51 +0200
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, david@tethera.net wrote:
> From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
>
> ---
>  man/man1/notmuch-tag.1 |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1
> index 0f86582..751db7b 100644
> --- a/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1
> +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-tag.1
> @@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ notmuch-tag \- add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms
>  
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
>  .B notmuch tag
> -.RI  "+<" tag> "|\-<" tag "> [...] [\-\-] <" search-term ">..."
> +.RI "+<" tag ">|\-<" tag "> [...] [\-\-] <" search-terms ">"
> +
> +.B notmuch tag
> +.RI "--batch"
> +.RI "[ --input=<" filename "> ]"
> +
>  
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  
> @@ -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 standard input. 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 "T +<" tag ">|\-<" tag "> [...] [\-\-] <" search-terms ">"

I think we should replace "<search-terms>" with "<search-term> [...]",
and ditch the plural below...

> +
> +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-terms>
> +.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

...so it would make the above description more accurately depict
reality. We don't care about hex encoding spaces between individual
search terms.

BR,
Jani.

> +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