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25 From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
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26 To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>,
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27 Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
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28 Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.
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53 On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:53:57 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
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54 > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:37:56 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
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55 > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
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57 > > IMHO 1[+2] is the way. It breaks the dump command interface, but would
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58 > > make it consistent with other commands. Implementing the second option
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59 > > (for all commands) is nice but independent and optional. Also, perhaps
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60 > > --output, --output-file or smth would a better name than --write.
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62 > I'm not fussy about the name, except that --output is taken, and I
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63 > thought there might be some benefit of making options have unique
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66 Is -o/--output taken before the subcommand? i.e.
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67 notmuch -o <dumpfile> dump <query> <terms>
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68 Or would that be to confusing?
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70 (-o is fairly standard for stdout redirection, so it would be nice to
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71 use that for notmuch, as well.)
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