Notmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching,
reading, and tagging large collections of email messages.
+This page describes how to get started using notmuch from the command
+line, and gives a brief overview of the commands available. For more
+information on e.g.
+.B notmuch show
+consult the \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1) man page, also accessible via
+.B notmuch help show
+
The quickest way to get started with Notmuch is to simply invoke the
.B notmuch
command with no arguments, which will interactively guide you through
interfaces are expected to be built on top of either the command-line
interface, or more likely, on top of the notmuch library
interface. See http://notmuchmail.org for more about alternate
-interfaces to notmuch.
+interfaces to notmuch. The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available under
+.B emacs/
+in the Notmuch source distribution) is probably the most widely used at
+this time.
+
.SH COMMANDS
Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will
use ${HOME}/.notmuch\-config if this variable is not set.
.SH SEE ALSO
-The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available as
-.B notmuch.el
-in the Notmuch distribution).
The notmuch website:
.B http://notmuchmail.org