From: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
	David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
	Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add `tag:' prefix to `--output=tags' results
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:56:48 +0400
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:00:56 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:17:30 -0500, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> > What do people think about this change? Personally I will have change
> > some scripts to not add "tag:", but it isn't that big of a deal.
> 
> I would actually prefer to see the prefixes removed from the messages
> and threads output rather than see it added to the tags output.  I think
> that's the way to make the output most consistent.  When I ask for
> --output=messages I'm asking for the message ids of the messages, not
> for search terms for the messages.  I think it should be up to the
> consumer to add the prefix if they would like to construct search terms
> based on the output.
> 

Makes sense to me.

Regards,
  Dmitry

> My 2 cents.  I would be happy to provide a patch to make that change if
> people agree to that behavior.
> 
> jamie.
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