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36 Subject: Re: have "notmuch help" call man?
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37 From: Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca>
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38 To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
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55 On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:01, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
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56 > Currently help strings are compiled into the notmuch binary. This is a
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57 > bit a of pain, since we have the same help text in two places.
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58 > What do you think about having "notmuch help foo" invoke "man
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59 > notmuch-foo" and create appropriate man pages (or links).
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61 I really like this git-style idea. An additional plus is that long
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62 help (e.g. notmuch help show) would be automatically paged, avoiding a
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