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From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
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Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:59:06 +0300, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
>=20
> In this case there would be 2 transitional syntaxes. IMHO=20
>=20
> 'notmuch dump <search-terms>' causes least transitional pain.
>=20

I don't understand what you mean here. Can you elaborate?

  notmuch dump <search-terms>=20

is not a transitional syntax, but rather a new syntax that breaks
existing scripts.=20

The advantage of using -- here is that it allows things like

    notmuch dump --format=3Dsomething-better -- --output

to search for --output (of course the query is then parsed a bit
surprisingly, but this is a different issue.)

d

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