Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:32:15 -0500
From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
To: Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH -v4] notmuch.el: Add face support to
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* Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> [091125 09:33]:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Alexander Botero-Lowry
> <alex.boterolowry@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This way of detecting the tags seems ok, but I think it would be nicer
> > if it could be done even more deterministically. :) One idea that be
> > neat is to have a --format=sexp for notmuch search, which exports sexps
> > (probably alists, but could be some other format) for the search results
> > that can just be eval'd and processed in a cleaner way (and would also
> > make for nicer APIs in emacs for querying notmuch itself). Actually I
> > really like the idea of a sexp output mode for show too, instead of the
> > markers.... *plots*
> 
> Along the same lines, I was thinking that it would be nice to be able
> to get output formatted in JSON as well for possible use in a web
> front-end.  Actually, it looks like Emacs has support for JSON as
> well[1].  Not sure what release it was introduced in, but I see that
> it's in 23.1.
> 
> http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/03/json.el

Would it be possible to make templates for output?

notmuch show --format=json would have notmuch follow rules from
.notmuch/json.template (or somesuch)

-Bart

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