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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Johannes Kulick <johannes@mailless.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: Feature proposal: OUTPUT_AUTHOR format\r
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+Johannes Kulick <johannes@mailless.org> writes:\r
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+> An authors output format would not add redundant information to a mail, would be\r
+> relatively easy to implement and I would find a people centric view - which\r
+> doesn't interfere with any other concept of notmuch - very worth the couple of\r
+> new lines of code.\r
+>\r
+> What would you say?\r
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+Hi Johannes;\r
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+I'm not sure I understand your goal completely here, but the obvious\r
+thing UI wise would be \r
+\r
+ notmuch search --output=authors --format=(json|text|sexp) $search_terms\r
+\r
+Perhaps you're already aware of this, but alot doesn't use the CLI, so\r
+that wouldn't be directly helpful to having a new view in alot.\r
+\r
+d\r
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