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+From: david@tethera.net\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH 3/7] CLI: convert top level argument parsing to use\r
+ command-line-arguments\r
+Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:25:54 -0400\r
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+From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
+\r
+This isn't really a win for conciseness yet, but will make it easier\r
+to add options.\r
+---\r
+ notmuch.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----\r
+ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c\r
+index f13fd27..a674481 100644\r
+--- a/notmuch.c\r
++++ b/notmuch.c\r
+@@ -249,6 +249,14 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+ void *local;\r
+ command_t *command;\r
+ unsigned int i;\r
++ notmuch_bool_t print_help=FALSE, print_version=FALSE;\r
++ int opt_index;\r
++\r
++ notmuch_opt_desc_t options[] = {\r
++ { NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &print_help, "help", 'h', 0 },\r
++ { NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &print_version, "version", 'v', 0 },\r
++ { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }\r
++ };\r
+ \r
+ talloc_enable_null_tracking ();\r
+ \r
+@@ -263,10 +271,16 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+ if (argc == 1)\r
+ return notmuch (local);\r
+ \r
+- if (strcmp (argv[1], "--help") == 0)\r
++ opt_index = parse_arguments (argc, argv, options, 1);\r
++ if (opt_index < 0) {\r
++ /* diagnostics already printed */\r
++ return 1;\r
++ }\r
++\r
++ if (print_help)\r
+ return notmuch_help_command (NULL, argc - 1, &argv[1]);\r
+ \r
+- if (strcmp (argv[1], "--version") == 0) {\r
++ if (print_version) {\r
+ printf ("notmuch " STRINGIFY(NOTMUCH_VERSION) "\n");\r
+ return 0;\r
+ }\r
+@@ -274,11 +288,11 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])\r
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE (commands); i++) {\r
+ command = &commands[i];\r
+ \r
+- if (strcmp (argv[1], command->name) == 0) {\r
++ if (strcmp (argv[opt_index], command->name) == 0) {\r
+ int ret;\r
+ char *talloc_report;\r
+ \r
+- ret = (command->function)(local, argc - 1, &argv[1]);\r
++ ret = (command->function)(local, argc - opt_index, argv + opt_index);\r
+ \r
+ /* in the future support for this environment variable may\r
+ * be supplemented or replaced by command line arguments\r
+-- \r
+1.7.10.4\r
+\r