X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-1.mdwn;h=2e45c93d288e27a3465609cc69d46dc0b2217834;hb=c996da49e1351eccfbe655c8461c80fb217ae5be;hp=f87392628cc87d85f3e0b7fecf3f340d5aa342e2;hpb=aeb851d55ecf79d2e8a8c9a1a99fd73ef1a7ac06;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-1.mdwn index f873926..2e45c93 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-1.mdwn @@ -7,17 +7,17 @@

SYNOPSIS

-       notmuch command [args ...]
+       notmuch [option ...] command [arg ...]

DESCRIPTION

-       Notmuch  is a command-line based program for indexing, searching, read-
+       Notmuch  is a command-line based program for indexing, searching, read‐
        ing, and tagging large collections of email messages.
 
        This page describes how to get started using notmuch from  the  command
        line,  and  gives  a brief overview of the commands available. For more
-       information on e.g.  notmuch show consult the notmuch-show(1) man page,
+       information on e.g. notmuch show consult the notmuch-show(1) man  page,
        also accessible via notmuch help show
 
        The  quickest  way  to get started with Notmuch is to simply invoke the
@@ -28,64 +28,78 @@
 
NOTE

 
        While the command-line program notmuch provides powerful functionality,
-       it does not provide the most convenient interface for that  functional-
+       it does not provide the most convenient interface for that  functional‐
        ity.  More  sophisticated interfaces are expected to be built on top of
-       either the command-line interface, or more likely, on top of  the  not-
-       much  library  interface.  See  http://notmuchmail.org  for  more about
+       either the command-line interface, or more likely, on top of  the  not‐
+       much  library  interface.  See  http://notmuchmail.org  for  more about
        alternate interfaces to notmuch. The emacs-based interface  to  notmuch
        (available under emacs/ in the Notmuch source distribution) is probably
        the most widely used at this time.
 

 
+
OPTIONS

+
+       Supported global options for notmuch include
+
+          --help Print a synopsis of available commands and exit.
+
+          --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}.
+

+
 
COMMANDS

 
 
   SETUP

 
-       The notmuch setup command is used to configure Notmuch for  first  use,
+       The  notmuch  setup command is used to configure Notmuch for first use,
        (or to reconfigure it later).
 
-       The  setup  command  will prompt for your full name, your primary email
-       address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory  con-
-       taining your email archives. Your answers will be written to a configu-
-       ration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or ${HOME}/.notmuch-config  .
-       This configuration file will be created with descriptive comments, mak-
-       ing it easy to edit by hand later to change the configuration.  Or  you
+       The setup command will prompt for your full name,  your  primary  email
+       address,  any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory con‐
+       taining your email archives. Your answers will be written to a configu‐
+       ration  file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or ${HOME}/.notmuch-config .
+       This configuration file will be created with descriptive comments, mak‐
+       ing  it  easy to edit by hand later to change the configuration. Or you
        can run notmuch setup again to change the configuration.
 
-       The  mail  directory you specify can contain any number of sub-directo-
-       ries and should primarily contain only files with individual email mes-
-       sages  (eg.  maildir  or  mh archives are perfect). If there are other,
-       non-email files (such as indexes maintained by  other  email  programs)
+       The mail directory you specify can contain any number  of  sub-directo‐
+       ries and should primarily contain only files with individual email mes‐
+       sages (eg. maildir or mh archives are perfect).  If  there  are  other,
+       non-email  files  (such  as indexes maintained by other email programs)
        then notmuch will do its best to detect those and ignore them.
 
-       Mail  storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many
-       messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is  cur-
+       Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains  many
+       messages),  will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is cur‐
        rently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir format
        with a utility such as mb2md before running notmuch setup .
 
-       Invoking notmuch with no command argument will run setup if  the  setup
+       Invoking  notmuch  with no command argument will run setup if the setup
        command has not previously been completed.
 

 
 
   OTHER COMMANDS

 
-       Several  of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common syn-
-       tax. See notmuch-search-terms(7) for more details on the supported syn-
+       Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common  syn‐
+       tax. See notmuch-search-terms(7) for more details on the supported syn‐
        tax.
 
-       The  search,  show and count commands are used to query the email data-
-       base.
+       The search, show, address and count commands  are  used  to  query  the
+       email database.
 
-       The reply command is useful for  preparing  a  template  for  an  email
+       The  reply  command  is  useful  for  preparing a template for an email
        reply.
 
        The tag command is the only command available for manipulating database
        contents.
 
-       The dump and restore commands can be used to create a textual  dump  of
+       The  dump  and restore commands can be used to create a textual dump of
        email tags for backup purposes, and to restore from that dump.
 
-       The  config  command can be used to get or set settings int the notmuch
+       The config command can be used to get or set settings  in  the  notmuch
        configuration file.
 

 
@@ -95,17 +109,25 @@
        of notmuch.
 
        NOTMUCH_CONFIG
-              Specifies  the  location of the notmuch configuration file. Not-
-              much will use ${HOME}/.notmuch-config if this  variable  is  not
+              Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration  file.  Not‐
+              much  will  use  ${HOME}/.notmuch-config if this variable is not
               set.
+
+       NOTMUCH_TALLOC_REPORT
+              Location to  write  a  talloc  memory  usage  report.  See  tal-
+              loc_enable_leak_report_full in talloc(3) for more information.
+
+       NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY
+              If  set to a non-empty value, the notmuch library will print (to
+              stderr) Xapian queries it constructs.

SEE ALSO

        notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), notmuch-hooks(5),
-       notmuch-new(1),    notmuch-reply(1),    notmuch-restore(1),    notmuch-
-       search(1)
-, notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
+       notmuch-insert(1),      notmuch-new(1),      notmuch-reply(1),     not‐
+       much-restore(1),   notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),   not‐
+       much-show(1), notmuch-tag(1), notmuch-address(1)
 
        The notmuch website: http://notmuchmail.org
@@ -113,11 +135,21 @@

CONTACT

        Feel  free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
-       list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> . Subscription is  not  required  before
+       list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org> . Subscription is  not  required  before
        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).
-

Notmuch 0.13.2

+

AUTHOR

+
+       Carl Worth and many others
+
+ +

COPYRIGHT

+
+       2015, Carl Worth and many others
+
+ +

0.20.2