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| author | Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> | 2017-03-06 21:26:59 +0200 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2017-03-07 09:05:50 -0400 |
| commit | 02421015fd7f9e31f17c5c8e211df33254546789 (patch) | |
| tree | f8cb249e1b518486e16801a04cf27e0c0f2692d5 /doc/man1 | |
| parent | 9da57ea10701e390b0a35c7b7aba51a28a497e98 (diff) | |
man: document external subcommand handling in notmuch(1)
The documentation for this was overlooked when adding the subcommand
handling. This seems like the proper place for it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/notmuch.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst index 7429f517..fbd7f381 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst @@ -116,6 +116,15 @@ 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 overriden using external commands. + ENVIRONMENT =========== |