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authorGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2011-12-19 09:21:26 -0400
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2011-12-31 15:16:32 -0400
commit8026b4a9ff6bb5d70e48bcd8c557fecefb222a03 (patch)
treeb2578bd316fa4190986123792b12a2208725beaa /man
parent482033f8f81b19228a7b74458f2b13ee3d6c1a17 (diff)
notmuch.1: smooth wording.
After most of the content was ripped out of the page, a few words were needed to glue things back togetehr.
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diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch.1 b/man/man1/notmuch.1
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--- a/man/man1/notmuch.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch.1
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ notmuch \- thread-based email index, search, and tagging
Notmuch is a command-line based program for indexing, searching,
reading, and tagging large collections of email messages.
+This page describes how to get started using notmuch from the command
+line, and gives a brief overview of the commands available. For more
+information on e.g.
+.B notmuch show
+consult the \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1) man page, also accessible via
+.B notmuch help show
+
The quickest way to get started with Notmuch is to simply invoke the
.B notmuch
command with no arguments, which will interactively guide you through
@@ -38,7 +45,11 @@ convenient interface for that functionality. More sophisticated
interfaces are expected to be built on top of either the command-line
interface, or more likely, on top of the notmuch library
interface. See http://notmuchmail.org for more about alternate
-interfaces to notmuch.
+interfaces to notmuch. The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available under
+.B emacs/
+in the Notmuch source distribution) is probably the most widely used at
+this time.
+
.SH COMMANDS
@@ -118,9 +129,6 @@ behavior of notmuch.
Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will
use ${HOME}/.notmuch\-config if this variable is not set.
.SH SEE ALSO
-The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available as
-.B notmuch.el
-in the Notmuch distribution).
The notmuch website:
.B http://notmuchmail.org