doc: use manpage role references to external man pages

[notmuch] / doc / man1 / notmuch.rst

diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst
index 971029433f5daf6c46b9ea1b44e909708506220d..7fdcc9dd57fbeb99cfd7b391730e9df20b0543c4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ While the command-line program ``notmuch`` provides powerful
 functionality, it does not provide the most convenient interface for
 that functionality. More sophisticated interfaces are expected to be
 built on top of either the command-line interface, or more likely, on
-top of the notmuch library interface. See http://notmuchmail.org for
+top of the notmuch library interface. See https://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.
@@ -39,15 +39,29 @@ OPTIONS
 
 Supported global options for ``notmuch`` include
 
-    ``--help``
-        Print a synopsis of available commands and exit.
+``--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.
+``--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}.
+``--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``
+
+All global options except ``--config`` can also be specified after the
+command. For example, ``notmuch subcommand --uuid=HEX`` is equivalent
+to ``notmuch --uuid=HEX subcommand``.
 
 COMMANDS
 ========
@@ -76,7 +90,8 @@ 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
 currently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir
-format with a utility such as mb2md before running **notmuch setup .**
+format with a utility such as :manpage:`mb2md(1)` before running
+**notmuch setup**.
 
 Invoking ``notmuch`` with no command argument will run **setup** if the
 setup command has not previously been completed.
@@ -88,8 +103,8 @@ Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common
 syntax. See **notmuch-search-terms**\ (7) for more details on the
 supported syntax.
 
-The **search**, **show** and **count** commands are used to query the
-email database.
+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
 reply.
@@ -103,6 +118,29 @@ dump of email tags for backup purposes, and to restore from that dump.
 The **config** command can be used to get or set settings in the notmuch
 configuration file.
 
+CUSTOM COMMANDS
+---------------
+
+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
+notmuch command. By design, this does not allow notmuch's own commands
+to be overridden using external commands.
+
+OPTION SYNTAX
+-------------
+
+All options accepting an argument can be used with '=' or ':' as a
+separator. Except for boolean options (which would be ambiguous), a
+space can also be used as a separator. The following are all
+equivalent:
+
+::
+
+   notmuch --config=alt-config config get user.name
+   notmuch --config:alt-config config get user.name
+   notmuch --config alt-config config get user.name
+
 ENVIRONMENT
 ===========
 
@@ -115,7 +153,7 @@ of notmuch.
 
 **NOTMUCH\_TALLOC\_REPORT**
     Location to write a talloc memory usage report. See
-    **talloc\_enable\_leak\_report\_full** in **talloc(3)** for more
+    **talloc\_enable\_leak\_report\_full** in :manpage:`talloc(3)` for more
     information.
 
 **NOTMUCH\_DEBUG\_QUERY**
@@ -125,12 +163,24 @@ of notmuch.
 SEE ALSO
 ========
 
-**notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**, **notmuch-dump(1)**,
-**notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-insert(1)**, **notmuch-new(1)**,
-**notmuch-reply(1)**, **notmuch-restore(1)**, **notmuch-search(1)**,
-**notmuch-search-terms(7)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)**
-
-The notmuch website: **http://notmuchmail.org**
+**notmuch-address(1)**,
+**notmuch-compact(1)**,
+**notmuch-config(1)**,
+**notmuch-count(1)**,
+**notmuch-dump(1)**,
+**notmuch-hooks(5)**,
+**notmuch-insert(1)**,
+**notmuch-new(1)**,
+**notmuch-properties(7)**,
+**notmuch-reindex(1)**,
+**notmuch-reply(1)**,
+**notmuch-restore(1)**,
+**notmuch-search(1)**,
+**notmuch-search-terms(7)**,
+**notmuch-show(1)**,
+**notmuch-tag(1)**
+
+The notmuch website: **https://notmuchmail.org**
 
 CONTACT
 =======