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43 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:40:08 +0200
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44 From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
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45 To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
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46 Subject: Re: [RFC] http://notmuchmail.org/searching/ [was: Re: Improving
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47 notmuch query documentation]
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80 On Vi, 16 mar 12, 20:20:17, Austin Clements wrote:
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82 > It is, quite literally, the manpage. notmuch execs man when you run
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87 > This was an intentional change a few releases ago. Previously, we did
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88 > have separate manpages and internal help documentation and it didn't
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89 > work very well since they were perpetually out of sync. Hence the
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90 > general concern about documentation fragmentation.
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92 Of course, I understand.
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94 > > This opinion is based also on what I see around at other terminal=20
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95 > > applications. The '--help' is seldom longer than a few lines and just=
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97 > > lists the available options and parameters (more like a refresher). The=
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99 > > manpage then explains them in more detail.
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101 > That's true of simple commands, but most commands with subcommands
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102 > follow a style like notmuch. In fact, notmuch's approach was modeled
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103 > directly off of git, and most modern VCSs do similar things.
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105 'git help' and 'man git' are quite different on my system, but I get the=20
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108 > > As I see it, the manpage (specifically section 'SEARCH SYNTAX' needs to=
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110 > > be expanded somewhat and 'help search-terms' shortened (a lot).
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112 > What did you think of my suggestion that the first thing in man
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113 > search-terms be a short reference so that's what you see immediately
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114 > when you run notmuch help search-terms? That seems to accomplish what
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115 > you want without fragmenting the documentation and seems like a good
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116 > way to write the documentation anyway.
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118 I still have a question: where does the first part of
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119 'notmuch help search-terms' come from? I can't find the corresponding=20
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120 section in the manpage? How about expanding that part just a bit and not=20
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121 show the text that comes from the manpage?
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126 If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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