Re: argument parsing refactoring round3

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: guyzmo <guyzmo+notmuch@m0g.net>\r
+Subject: Re: argument parsing refactoring round3\r
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:\r
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+> guyzmo <guyzmo+notmuch@m0g.net> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> I was wondering whether you had considered actually using `docopt` to\r
+>> generate the CLI parser from the output.\r
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+> As it stands, I'm not particularly annoyed with the notmuch argument\r
+> parsing code, so I mainly see negative issues about your proposal.\r
+\r
+On the other hand, I do find the config handling code annoying, so if\r
+people have some ideas about that, I am interested to hear them.  There\r
+is now almost 1000 lines of C in notmuch-config.c, and despite some\r
+efforts to streamline things, there is a lot of copying and pasting\r
+every time someone wants to add a configuration option.\r
+\r
+d\r