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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH 3/3] notmuch-show.c: prototype tabular output
 format, with output control
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:25:22 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:19:16 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> > 
> > --format=tabular --output=message-id
> 
> Ah, so maybe your "notmuch show --format=tabular" is basically the same
> thing I imagined for "notmuch search" (once we teach it to accept a list
> of the desired elements to output).

There is a third "control axis", namely one piece of output per thread
(current "notmuch search" style), or all of the messages ("notmuch show
style")