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39 Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] Add an "--format=(json|text)" command-line
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40 option to both notmuch-search and notmuch-show.
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55 On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:17:40 -0400, david@tethera.net wrote:
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56 > From: Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com>
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58 > In the case of notmuch-show, "--format=json" also implies
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59 > "--entire-thread" as the thread structure is implicit in the emitted
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63 Dear Scott and other interested parties;
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65 As I play with json output a bit more, it seems like having
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66 --entire-thread optional would be useful for quite a few applications.
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67 For example, if I want to get the From address for a given message-ID, I
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68 with the current setup I have to post process the output. This is
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69 doable, but I wonder if the better option isn't to make --entire-thread
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70 optional for --format=json as well.
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