From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:40:46 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Re: [Paul Wise] Bug#825886: notmuch: allow separation of command-line options and... 
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Re: [Paul Wise] Bug#825886: notmuch: allow separation of command-line options and their values: --option foo
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+Subject: Re: [Paul Wise] Bug#825886: notmuch: allow separation of command-line
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+On Tue, May 31 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
+
+> From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
+> Subject: Bug#825886: notmuch: allow separation of command-line options an=
+d their values: --option foo
+> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
+> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:41:42 +0800
+>
+> [ Unknown signature status ]
+> Package: notmuch
+> Version: 0.22-1
+> Severity: wishlist
+>
+> It would be nice if notmuch would allow separation between=C2=A0command-l=
+ine=20
+> options and their values so that I could run dump and not get an error.
+>
+> pabs@chianamo ~ $=C2=A0notmuch dump --gzip --output ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+> Option "output" needs a string argument.
+> Unrecognized option: --output
+> pabs@chianamo ~ $ notmuch dump --gzip --output=3D~/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+> Bad output file ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+>
+> I don't want to have to manually type my home dir whenever I dump tags,
+> which I currently have to do since notmuch requires =3D as a separator.
+
+As a (temporary?) workaround you can use $HOME in command line.
+
+>
+> pabs@chianamo ~ $ notmuch dump --gzip --output=3D/home/pabs/.../notmuch-t=
+ags.gz
+>
+> Separation of long options and their values is a standard feature of
+> programs on Debian so it is surprising this doesn't work by default.
+>
+> pabs@chianamo ~ $ ls -s --block-size M ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+> XXXM /home/pabs/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+> pabs@chianamo ~ $ ls -s --block-size=3DM ~/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+> XXXM /home/pabs/.../notmuch-tags.gz
+>
+> -- System Information:
+> Debian Release: stretch/sid