bti: fix a crash for echo -n|bti

[gregoa/bti.git] / bti.1

diff --git a/bti.1 b/bti.1
index d33f2e1ba3cbf5335739a11aad0ab7b204b1cd91..86546860584e333760893a637966140d7997f4b2 100644 (file)
--- a/bti.1
+++ b/bti.1
@@ -167,11 +167,11 @@
 .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
 .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH "Name"
-bti \- send a tweet to twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca from the command line
+bti \- send a tweet to twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca (or any custom laconi\&.ca installation) from the command line
 .SH "Synopsis"
 .fam C
 .HP \w'\fBbti\fR\ 'u
-\fBbti\fR [\fB\-\-account\ account\fR] [\fB\-\-password\ password\fR] [\fB\-\-action\ action\fR] [\fB\-\-user\ screenname\fR] [\fB\-\-host\ HOST_NAME\fR] [\fB\-\-proxy\ PROXY:PORT\fR] [\fB\-\-logfile\ LOGFILE\fR] [\fB\-\-page\ PAGENUMBER\fR] [\fB\-\-bash\fR] [\fB\-\-shrink\-urls\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR]
+\fBbti\fR [\fB\-\-account\ account\fR] [\fB\-\-password\ password\fR] [\fB\-\-action\ action\fR] [\fB\-\-user\ screenname\fR] [\fB\-\-host\ HOST_NAME\fR] [\fB\-\-proxy\ PROXY:PORT\fR] [\fB\-\-logfile\ LOGFILE\fR] [\fB\-\-page\ PAGENUMBER\fR] [\fB\-\-bash\fR] [\fB\-\-shrink\-urls\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR]  [\fB\-\-verbose\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR]
 .fam
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .PP
@@ -196,12 +196,16 @@ Specify the action which you want to perform\&. Valid options are "update" to se
 \fB\-\-user screenname\fR
 .RS 4
 Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user"\&.
+.sp
+If no screenname is specified, the default is account name\&.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fB\-\-host HOST_NAME\fR
 .RS 4
 Specify the host which you want to send your message to\&. Valid options are "twitter" to send to twitter\&.com and "identica" to send to identi\&.ca\&.
 .sp
+If you want to send the message to a custom laconi\&.ca installation, you should specify the API URI\&. For example identi\&.ca\'s URI is: https://identi\&.ca/api/statuses\&.
+.sp
 If no host is specified, the default is to send to twitter\&.com\&.
 .RE
 .PP
@@ -239,6 +243,11 @@ When the action is to retrieve updates, it usually retrieves only one page\&. If
 Performs all steps that would normally be done for a given action, but will not connect to the service to post or retrieve data\&.
 .RE
 .PP
+\fB\-\-verbose\fR
+.RS 4
+Verbose mode
+.RE
+.PP
 \fB\-\-bash\fR
 .RS 4
 Add the working directory and a \'$\' in the tweet message to help specify it is coming from a command line\&. Don\'t put the working directory and the \'$\' in the tweet message\&.
@@ -285,12 +294,12 @@ The twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca account name you wish to use to send this messa
 The twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca password for the account you wish to use to send this message with\&.
 .RE
 .PP
-\fB\-\-action action\fR
+\fBaction action\fR
 .RS 4
 Specify the action which you want to perform\&. Valid options are "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends timeline, "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see replies to your messages and "user" to see a specific user\'s timeline\&.
 .RE
 .PP
-\fB\-\-user screenname\fR
+\fBuser screenname\fR
 .RS 4
 Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user"\&.
 .RE
@@ -298,6 +307,8 @@ Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user"\&.
 \fBhost\fR
 .RS 4
 The host you want to use to send the message to\&. Valid options are either "twitter" or "identica" to send to twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca respectively\&.
+.sp
+If you want to send the message to a custom laconi\&.ca installation, you should specify the API URI\&. For example identi\&.ca\'s URI is: https://identi\&.ca/api/statuses\&.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fBproxy\fR
@@ -315,6 +326,11 @@ The logfile name for bti to write what happened to\&. This file is relative to t
 Setting this variable to \'true\' or \'yes\' will enable the URL shrinking feature\&. This is equivalent to using the \-\-shrink\-urls option\&.
 .RE
 .PP
+\fBverbose\fR
+.RS 4
+Setting this variable to \'true\' or \'yes\' will enable the Verbose mode\&.
+.RE
+.PP
 There is an example config file called
 \FCbti\&.example\F[]
 in the source tree that shows the structure of the file if you need an example to work off of\&.
@@ -337,4 +353,5 @@ For example, command line options always override any config file option, or any
 .SH "AUTHOR"
 .PP
 Written by Greg Kroah\-Hartman
-\FCgreg@kroah\&.com\F[]\&.
+<\FCgreg@kroah\&.com\F[]> and Amir Mohammad Saied
+<\FCamirsaied@gmail\&.com\F[]>\&.