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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cli: make the command line parser's errors more
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Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:

> Previously, the cli parser was a little erratic in what errors it
> reported and would fail silently in many cases (for example, when no
> argument was passed to an integer option). This was particularly
> annoying as the user could not (easily) tell whether the command
> failed or just there were no search results.

pushed,

d