X-Git-Url: https://git.toastfreeware.priv.at/gregoa/bti.git/blobdiff_plain/40ccc8d509ab110222bebee5691f490fd82c014e..d6d0d5a3461d22d0acc7f7bdcf382b7b74136648:/bti.1 diff --git a/bti.1 b/bti.1 index daeed37..385b5f5 100644 --- a/bti.1 +++ b/bti.1 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ bti \- send a tweet to twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca from the command line .SH "SYNOPSIS" .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\-\-config\ CONFIGFILE\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] +\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\-\-config\ CONFIGFILE\fR] [\fB\-\-replyto\ ID\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] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP bti sends a tweet message to twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca\&. @@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ Specify a logfile for bti to write status messages to\&. LOGFILE is in relation Specify a config file for bti to read from\&. By default, bti looks in the ~/\&.bti file for config values\&. This default location can be overridden by setting a specific file with this option\&. .RE .PP +\fB\-\-replyto ID\fR +.RS 4 +Status ID of a single post to which you want to create a threaded reply to\&. +.sp +For twitter, this is ignored unless the message starts with the @name of the owner of the post with the status ID\&. +.sp +For status\&.net, this can link any two messages into context with each other\&. Status\&.net will also link a message that contains an @name without this without regard to context\&. +.RE +.PP \fB\-\-shrink\-urls\fR .RS 4 Scans the tweet text for valid URL patterns and passes each through the supplied bti\-shrink\-urls script\&. The script will pass the URL to a web service that shrinks the URLs, making it more suitable for micro\-blogging\&. @@ -169,6 +178,13 @@ The http proxy needed to send data out to the Internet\&. The logfile name for bti to write what happened to\&. This file is relative to the user\'s home directory\&. If this file is not specified here or on the command line, no logging will be written to the disk\&. .RE .PP +\fBreplyto\fR +.RS 4 +The status ID to which all notices will be linked to\&. +.sp +There is no sane reason for a need to have this set in a config file\&. One such reason is to have all your messages as children to a particular status\&. +.RE +.PP \fBshrink\-urls\fR .RS 4 Setting this variable to \'true\' or \'yes\' will enable the URL shrinking feature\&. This is equivalent to using the \-\-shrink\-urls option\&.