Quoth David Bremner on Jun 04 at 8:37 am: > Tomi Ollila <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 04 2013, Austin Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I realize this already got pushed, but to me this seems like a > >> reversion for the 95% of users who haven't customized > >> notmuch-archive-tags and just want to know that archiving means > >> removing the inbox tag. Why is this less confusing? Users who have > >> customized notmuch-archive-tags will probably know that the "default" > >> doesn't apply to them. > > As a side note, this kind of thing is why I started a texinfo manual; I > don't really think reading docstrings is the best intro for a new user. > > > Can we have both -- i.e. something like (default: "-inbox") in the > > docstring. When entering c-h f notmuch-show-archive-thread > > The `notmuch-archive-tags' in text is a hyperlink to the documentation > > of notmuch-archive-tags (which shows its current value)... > > I don't really mind Tomi's suggestion, although in practice I think > following the hyperlink is also not so burdensome. I mainly didn't like > the places it mentioned "inbox" without mentioning the variable that > really controls it.
Right. I think we should both reference the variable and say what the default behavior is (there's no reason not to do both). But isn't that what these docstrings used to do? _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list [email protected] http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
