From 02a2bf1b256f4eeb8c5e08129a2f0976da2569ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 15:26:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] notmuch(1): clarify documentation about --option/value separators id:CA+Tk8fzRiqxWpd=r8=DRvEewNZXUZgD7MKyRLB1A=R-LxxGEZw@mail.gmail.com started a thread of discussion that showed that the cli's current idiosyncrasies around dealing with boolean options were not understandable. This attempts to improve the documentation at least (actual changes to the API might be better, but have not reached consensus). Note that no one in the discussion thread identified any other (non-boolean) command-line options that cannot use space as a separator. If such an option is identified (or introduced in the future), it should be added explicitly to this part of the manual. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor --- doc/man1/notmuch.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst index d2cd8da5..fecfd08a 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ 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: +separator. Except for boolean options (which would be ambiguous), a +space can also be used as a separator. The following are all +equivalent: :: -- 2.43.0