From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>
To: Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 19/20] man: document 'insert' command
In-Reply-To: <1353806206-29133-20-git-send-email-novalazy@gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:17:10 +0000
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Add initial documentation for notmuch insert command.
> ---
>  man/Makefile.local        |  1 +
>  man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 man/man1/notmuch-insert.1
>
> diff --git a/man/Makefile.local b/man/Makefile.local
> index 72e2a18..216aaa0 100644
> --- a/man/Makefile.local
> +++ b/man/Makefile.local
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ MAN1 := \
>  	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-count.1 \
>  	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-dump.1 \
>  	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-restore.1 \
> +	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-insert.1 \
>  	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-new.1 \
>  	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-reply.1 \
>  	$(dir)/man1/notmuch-search.1 \
> diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..8b1c4e9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1
> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> +.TH NOTMUCH-INSERT 1 2012-xx-xx "Notmuch 0.xx"
> +.SH NAME
> +notmuch-insert \- add a message to the maildir and notmuch database
> +.SH SYNOPSIS
> +
> +.B notmuch insert
> +.RI "[" options "]"
> +.RI "[ +<" tag> "|\-<" tag "> ... ]"
> +
> +.SH DESCRIPTION
> +
> +.B notmuch insert
> +reads a message from standard input
> +and delivers it to the specified maildir folder,
> +then incorporates the message into the notmuch database.
> +It is an alternative to using a separate tool to deliver
> +the message then running
> +.B notmuch new
> +afterwards.
> +
> +The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the
> +.B new.tags
> +configuration option.
> +Additional tagging operations may be specified on the command-line:
> +tags prefixed by '+' are added while
> +those prefixed by '\-' are removed.

Is it worth emphasising that the command line tags are applied after the
new tags so can be used to remove the new tags?

Best wishes

Mark

> +Option arguments must appear before any tag operation arguments.
> +Supported options for
> +.B insert
> +include
> +.RS 4
> +.TP 4
> +.BI "--folder=<" folder ">"
> +
> +Deliver the message to the specified folder,
> +relative to the top-level directory given by the value of
> +\fBdatabase.path\fR.
> +The default is to deliver to the top-level directory.
> +
> +.RE
> +
> +.RS 4
> +.TP 4
> +.B "--create-folder"
> +
> +Try to create the folder named by the
> +.B "--folder"
> +option, if it does not exist.
> +Otherwise the folder must already exist for mail
> +delivery to succeed.
> +
> +.RE
> +.SH SEE ALSO
> +
> +\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
> +\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1),
> +\fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1),
> +\fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),
> +\fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)
> -- 
> 1.7.12.1
>
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