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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH 2/4] cli: refactor notmuch_help_command\r
+Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 05:59:32 +0900\r
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+\r
+Create a new private entry point _help_for so that we can call help\r
+without simulating a command line invokation to set up the arguments.\r
+---\r
+ notmuch.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------\r
+ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c\r
+index 31672c3..bff941f 100644\r
+--- a/notmuch.c\r
++++ b/notmuch.c\r
+@@ -177,21 +177,19 @@ exec_man (const char *page)\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ static int\r
+-notmuch_help_command (unused (notmuch_config_t * config), int argc, char *argv[])\r
++_help_for (const char *topic_name)\r
+ {\r
+ command_t *command;\r
+ help_topic_t *topic;\r
+ unsigned int i;\r
+ \r
+- argc--; argv++; /* Ignore "help" */\r
+-\r
+- if (argc == 0) {\r
++ if (!topic_name) {\r
+ printf ("The notmuch mail system.\n\n");\r
+ usage (stdout);\r
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS;\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+- if (strcmp (argv[0], "help") == 0) {\r
++ if (strcmp (topic_name, "help") == 0) {\r
+ printf ("The notmuch help system.\n\n"\r
+ "\tNotmuch uses the man command to display help. In case\n"\r
+ "\tof difficulties check that MANPATH includes the pages\n"\r
+@@ -200,7 +198,7 @@ notmuch_help_command (unused (notmuch_config_t * config), int argc, char *argv[]\r
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS;\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+- command = find_command (argv[0]);\r
++ command = find_command (topic_name);\r
+ if (command) {\r
+ char *page = talloc_asprintf (NULL, "notmuch-%s", command->name);\r
+ exec_man (page);\r
+@@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ notmuch_help_command (unused (notmuch_config_t * config), int argc, char *argv[]\r
+ \r
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE (help_topics); i++) {\r
+ topic = &help_topics[i];\r
+- if (strcmp (argv[0], topic->name) == 0) {\r
++ if (strcmp (topic_name, topic->name) == 0) {\r
+ char *page = talloc_asprintf (NULL, "notmuch-%s", topic->name);\r
+ exec_man (page);\r
+ }\r
+@@ -216,10 +214,22 @@ notmuch_help_command (unused (notmuch_config_t * config), int argc, char *argv[]\r
+ \r
+ fprintf (stderr,\r
+ "\nSorry, %s is not a known command. There's not much I can do to help.\n\n",\r
+- argv[0]);\r
++ topic_name);\r
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;\r
+ }\r
+ \r
++static int\r
++notmuch_help_command (unused (notmuch_config_t * config), int argc, char *argv[])\r
++{\r
++ argc--; argv++; /* Ignore "help" */\r
++\r
++ if (argc == 0) {\r
++ return _help_for (NULL);\r
++ }\r
++\r
++ return _help_for (argv[0]);\r
++}\r
++\r
+ /* Handle the case of "notmuch" being invoked with no command\r
+ * argument. For now we just call notmuch_setup_command, but we plan\r
+ * to be more clever about this in the future.\r
+-- \r
+2.1.4\r
+\r