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| author | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2022-07-30 20:45:49 -0300 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2022-08-06 09:20:24 -0300 |
| commit | 429924b28ffe80872a49f254adb2e456ec61c953 (patch) | |
| tree | 605275d954c9d35d879c220be3c3142402b2ab63 /doc/man1 | |
| parent | 7b27119d8ee4ad612b7a7d48b612d15a58d68976 (diff) | |
doc/notmuch: merge two sections on external commands.
When adding the description of the propagation of NOTMUCH_CONFIG, I
missed that there was already a section on external commands, with a
different title.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/notmuch.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst index e0892e01..1fec4ee5 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst @@ -130,14 +130,16 @@ and to restore from that dump. The :any:`notmuch-config(1)` command can be used to get or set settings in the notmuch configuration file. -CUSTOM COMMANDS ---------------- +EXTERNAL COMMANDS +----------------- If the given command is not known to notmuch, notmuch tries to execute 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. +to be overridden using external commands. The environment variable +:envvar:`NOTMUCH_CONFIG` will be set according to :option:`--config`, +if the latter is present. OPTION SYNTAX ------------- @@ -185,14 +187,6 @@ of notmuch. If set to a non-empty value, the notmuch library will print (to stderr) Xapian queries it constructs. -EXTERNAL COMMANDS -================= - -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 ======== |