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authorGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-06-01 10:46:52 -0700
committerGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-06-01 10:51:42 -0700
commit1d528f890ad34d0de596b09024f35216947de063 (patch)
tree8e296193926d9714b21fc73cf6a99b5a057899d0 /Makefile.local
parentecfc8df47627fde618a338b88d10e710a5611d3b (diff)
Makefile: Improve the "what to do now" message from "make install"
This was already telling the user how to run notmuch within emacs, but not how to just run the notmuch command-line interface, (which, as it turns out, is a prerequisite for running the emacs interface anyway). So add a small paragraph here.
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile.local')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local
index 5bb570b1..59b8d64e 100644
--- a/Makefile.local
+++ b/Makefile.local
@@ -273,11 +273,20 @@ ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS), install)
@echo ""
@echo "Notmuch is now installed to $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)"
@echo ""
- @echo "To run notmuch from emacs, each user should add the following line to ~/.emacs:"
+ @echo "New users should simply run \"notmuch\" to be guided"
+ @echo "through the process of configuring notmuch and creating"
+ @echo "a database of existing email messages. The \"notmuch\""
+ @echo "command will also offer some sample search commands."
+ @echo ""
+ @echo "Beyond the command-line interface, notmuch also offers"
+ @echo "a full-featured interface for reading and writing mail"
+ @echo "within emacs. To use this, each user should add the"
+ @echo "following line to the ~/.emacs file:"
@echo ""
@echo " (require 'notmuch)"
@echo ""
- @echo "And should then run \"M-x notmuch\" from within emacs or run \"emacs -f notmuch\""
+ @echo "And then run emacs as \"emacs -f notmuch\" or invoke"
+ @echo "the command \"M-x notmuch\" from within emacs."
endif
.PHONY: install-desktop