From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:01:54 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: Re: argument parsing refactoring round3
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Re: argument parsing refactoring round3
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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+Subject: Re: argument parsing refactoring round3
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
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+> guyzmo <guyzmo+notmuch@m0g.net> writes:
+>
+>> I was wondering whether you had considered actually using `docopt` to
+>> generate the CLI parser from the output.
+
+> As it stands, I'm not particularly annoyed with the notmuch argument
+> parsing code, so I mainly see negative issues about your proposal.
+
+On the other hand, I do find the config handling code annoying, so if
+people have some ideas about that, I am interested to hear them.  There
+is now almost 1000 lines of C in notmuch-config.c, and despite some
+efforts to streamline things, there is a lot of copying and pasting
+every time someone wants to add a configuration option.
+
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