Supported global options for ``notmuch`` include
-``--help`` [command-name]
- Print a synopsis of available commands and exit. With an optional
- command name, show the man page for that subcommand.
-
-``--version``
- Print the installed version of notmuch, and exit.
-
-``--config=FILE``
- Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any
- configuration file specified by ${NOTMUCH\_CONFIG}. The empty
- string is a permitted and sometimes useful value of *FILE*, which
- tells ``notmuch`` to use only configuration metadata from the database.
-
-``--uuid=HEX``
- Enforce that the database UUID (a unique identifier which persists
- until e.g. the database is compacted) is HEX; exit with an error
- if it is not. This is useful to detect rollover in modification
- counts on messages. You can find this UUID using e.g. ``notmuch
- count --lastmod``
+.. program:: notmuch
+
+.. option:: --help [command-name]
+
+ Print a synopsis of available commands and exit. With an optional
+ command name, show the man page for that subcommand.
+
+.. option:: --version
+
+ Print the installed version of notmuch, and exit.
+
+.. option:: --config=FILE
+
+ Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any
+ configuration file specified by :envvar:`NOTMUCH_CONFIG`. The empty
+ string is a permitted and sometimes useful value of *FILE*, which
+ tells ``notmuch`` to use only configuration metadata from the database.
+
+.. option:: --uuid=HEX
+
+ Enforce that the database UUID (a unique identifier which persists
+ until e.g. the database is compacted) is HEX; exit with an error
+ if it is not. This is useful to detect rollover in modification
+ counts on messages. You can find this UUID using e.g. ``notmuch
+ count --lastmod``
All global options except ``--config`` can also be specified after the
command. For example, ``notmuch subcommand --uuid=HEX`` is equivalent
The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory
containing your email archives. Your answers will be written to a
-configuration file in ${NOTMUCH\_CONFIG} (if set) or
+configuration file in :envvar:`NOTMUCH_CONFIG` (if set) or
${HOME}/.notmuch-config . This configuration file will be created with
descriptive comments, making it easy to edit by hand later to change the
configuration. Or you can run **notmuch setup** again to change the
---------------
If the given command is not known to notmuch, notmuch tries to execute
-the external **notmuch-<subcommand>** in ${PATH} instead. This allows
-users to have their own notmuch related tools to be run via the
+the external **notmuch-<subcommand>** in :envvar:`PATH` instead. This
+allows users to have their own notmuch related tools to be run via the
notmuch command. By design, this does not allow notmuch's own commands
to be overridden using external commands.
The following environment variables can be used to control the behavior
of notmuch.
-**NOTMUCH\_CONFIG**
- Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch
- will use ${HOME}/.notmuch-config if this variable is not set.
+.. envvar:: NOTMUCH_CONFIG
+
+ Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. See
+ :any:`notmuch-config(1)` for details.
+
+.. envvar:: NOTMUCH_DATABASE
+
+ Specifies the location of the notmuch database. See
+ :any:`notmuch-config(1)` for details.
+
+.. envvar:: NOTMUCH_PROFILE
+
+ Selects among notmuch configurations. See :any:`notmuch-config(1)`
+ for details.
+
+.. envvar:: NOTMUCH_TALLOC_REPORT
+
+ Location to write a talloc memory usage report. See
+ **talloc\_enable\_leak\_report\_full** in :manpage:`talloc(3)` for more
+ information.
+
+.. envvar:: NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY
+
+ If set to a non-empty value, the notmuch library will print (to
+ stderr) Xapian queries it constructs.
-**NOTMUCH\_TALLOC\_REPORT**
- Location to write a talloc memory usage report. See
- **talloc\_enable\_leak\_report\_full** in :manpage:`talloc(3)` for more
- information.
+EXTERNAL COMMANDS
+=================
-**NOTMUCH\_DEBUG\_QUERY**
- If set to a non-empty value, the notmuch library will print (to
- stderr) Xapian queries it constructs.
+When given a subcommand `foo` not recognized as built-in, notmuch will
+try to run the command (e.g. script) `notmuch-foo` in the user's
+path. The :envvar:`NOTMUCH_CONFIG` will be set according to
+:option:`--config`, if the latter is present.
SEE ALSO
========
posting, but is available from the notmuchmail.org website.
Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
-(server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).
+(server: irc.libera.chat, channel: #notmuch).