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Re: [PATCH] gnu: mail: Add notifymuch.


From: Hartmut Goebel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: mail: Add notifymuch.
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:58:58 +0200
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Am 12.10.2016 um 20:17 schrieb Christopher Baines:
>>> +    (description "notifymuch displays desktop notifications for
>>> messages in
>>> +the notmuch database.  The notifications are sent using libnotify to a
>>
>> May I ask you to ass some words about what notmuch is? This saves the
>> ingenuous reader to recherché what notmuch is. Thanks.
>
> I'm not quite sure how to improve on this. Copying in the full package
> description for notmuch looks out of place to me, and I'm not sure if
> just saying "the notmuch email database" instead of "the notmuch
> database" is sufficient?
>

IC, this is a complicated one, since notmuch seems to be a framework. I
have to admit that I did not know about notmuch until just now.
Explaining about what notmuch is would indeed disrupt the description.
So I'd say your suggestion is okay, since it give the ingenuous reader
at least a hint.

(synopsis "Displays notifications for changes in the notmuch email
database")


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Hartmut Goebel

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