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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: lei-q doc thoughts... [was: doc: start manpages for lei commands]
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 14:57:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kipj7ft.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210206090119.GA14519@dcvr>

Eric Wong writes:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>> +=item --mua-cmd=COMMAND, --mua=COMMAND
>
> On second thought:  is the long "--mua-cmd" even worth having or
> supporting given "--mua=" exists?  I will likely remove it from
> the documentation and filter it out from the help text.
>
> Technically "mua-cmd" is more descriptive since it's a command
> with a %f placeholder, but I can't imagine anybody wanting to
> type "--mua-cmd" over "--mua".

No, I can't either.  Dropping --mua-cmd makes sense.

>> +=item -t, --thread
>> +
>> +Return all messages in the same thread as the actual match(es).
>
> Heh, it turns out mairix uses "--threads" (plural).  I never
> knew that since I always used "-t".  Not sure if it's worth
> pluralizing on our end...

I'd vote for following mairix here.  I guess most people will use -t,
but it's just one less thing to get tripped up on.

By the way, if you'd like, I'd be happy to do a round (or more) of lei
manpage updates for new additions whenever you think things are in a
good spot for it.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-06 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-01  5:57 [PATCH 0/2] doc: initial lei manpages Kyle Meyer
2021-02-01  5:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: start manpages for lei commands Kyle Meyer
2021-02-06  9:01   ` lei-q doc thoughts... [was: doc: start manpages for lei commands] Eric Wong
2021-02-06 19:57     ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2021-02-07  3:33       ` Eric Wong
2021-02-07 19:58   ` lei q --output vs --mfolder [was: [PATCH 1/2] " Eric Wong
2021-02-07 20:33     ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-07 20:59       ` Eric Wong
2021-02-07 21:47         ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-07 21:55           ` Eric Wong
2021-02-01  5:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: add lei-overview(7) Kyle Meyer
2021-02-01  6:40   ` Eric Wong
2021-02-01 11:37     ` Eric Wong

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