Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
+       Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] notmuch cli config changes\r
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+Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:\r
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+> But don't get me wrong, the CLI is one of the things that makes notmuch\r
+> so incredibly awesome.  It's an email swiss army knife that's there when\r
+> you need it.  But given that even I often need to look at the man page\r
+> during my occasional CLI usage, I just don't want to see it get to\r
+> overcrowded.\r
+\r
+Well, maybe this should be a discussion about how to organize the CLI\r
+documentation so that more commonly used options are easy to find. That\r
+would indeed be a side effect of making less commonly used options\r
+controlled by environment variables, and documenting the environment\r
+variables at the bottom of the man pages as per tradition. But I don't\r
+think this is the only way or even the best way to achieve good\r
+documentation.\r
+\r
+d\r