<arg><option>--host HOST_NAME</option></arg>
<arg><option>--proxy PROXY:PORT</option></arg>
<arg><option>--logfile LOGFILE</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--page PAGENUMBER</option></arg>
<arg><option>--bash</option></arg>
<arg><option>--shrink-urls</option></arg>
<arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
<arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--verbose</option></arg>
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
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.
+ timeline. Default is "update".
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><option>--user screenname</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the
+ Specify the user whose messages you want to see when the
action is "user".
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
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.
+ send to identi.ca.
+
+ 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
</para>
<para>
If no host is specified, the default is to send to twitter.com.
<para>Print a whole bunch of debugging messages to stdout.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--page PAGENUMBER</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When the action is to retrieve updates, it usually retrieves
+ only one page. If this option is used, the page number can be
+ specified.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dry-run</option></term>
<listitem>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--verbose</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Verbose mode
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bash</option></term>
<listitem>
out.
</para>
<para>
- It's primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you
+ Its primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you
type into a bash shell, in a crazy, "this is what I'm doing right
now!" type of way, letting the world follow along with you
constant moving between directories and refreshing your email
<para>
The account and password can be stored in a configuration file
in the users home directory in a file named
- <filename>.bti</filename> The structure of this file is as
+ <filename>.bti</filename>. The structure of this file is as
follows:
</para>
<variablelist>
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.
+
+ 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.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>verbose</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Setting this variable to 'true' or 'yes' will enable the
+ verbose mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
<para>
There is an example config file called
<filename>bti.example</filename> in the source tree that shows
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
- <para>Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <email>greg@kroah.com</email>.</para>
+ <para>Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <<email>greg@kroah.com</email>> and Amir Mohammad Saied <<email>amirsaied@gmail.com</email>>.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>