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| author | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2017-07-01 12:18:45 -0300 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2017-07-12 17:46:29 -0300 |
| commit | a32dd81a55a5d745dbf840b42d03e835a4e1e45c (patch) | |
| tree | 09a70a8b3d9675e1129f5f8828a5b809b7353e1a /doc/man1 | |
| parent | de9baa29dc990e4166b47dc2b0d0cf560014834b (diff) | |
cli: add space separator for keyword, string, and int arguments
Defer the complication of optional boolean arguments for later (never?).
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/notmuch.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst index fbd7f381..5e238ae4 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst @@ -125,6 +125,20 @@ 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. +OPTION SYNTAX +------------- + +All options accepting an argument can be used with '=' or ':' as a +separator. For the cases where it's not ambiguous (in particular +excluding boolean options), a space can also be used. 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 =========== |