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authorGravatar Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca>2012-03-18 10:32:38 -0600
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2012-03-19 21:57:25 -0300
commit71855b72f702e8751c35f71c787a00d64a77b663 (patch)
treebfc9716f87f8a34b6e1705a20ac52b8e2721df07 /man
parent5abc9c1097a54e0e8b62e468d51728edb26b9101 (diff)
man: Update notmuch-reply man page for JSON format.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/man1/notmuch-reply.110
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-reply.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-reply.1
index deb3ae1d..ec8da1f7 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-reply.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-reply.1
@@ -37,12 +37,17 @@ Supported options for
include
.RS
.TP 4
-.BR \-\-format= ( default | headers\-only )
+.BR \-\-format= ( default | json | headers\-only )
.RS
.TP 4
.BR default
Includes subject and quoted message body.
.TP
+.BR json
+Produces JSON output containing headers for a reply message and the
+contents of the original message. This output can be used by a client
+to create a reply message intelligently.
+.TP
.BR headers\-only
Only produces In\-Reply\-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc headers.
.RE
@@ -73,7 +78,8 @@ with a search string matching a single message, (such as
id:<message-id>), but it can be useful to reply to several messages at
once. For example, when a series of patches are sent in a single
thread, replying to the entire thread allows for the reply to comment
-on issue found in multiple patches.
+on issues found in multiple patches. The default format supports
+replying to multiple messages at once, but the JSON format does not.
.RE
.RE