Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] reply: Require that only one message is returned

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+Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:29:36 -0400\r
+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] reply: Require that only one message is returned\r
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+Quoth Jani Nikula on Mar 10 at  1:00 am:\r
+> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:46:32 -0700, Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca> wrote:\r
+> > As the semantics of replying to multiple messages have not yet been\r
+> > defined well, make notmuch reply require that the search given returns\r
+> > only a single message.\r
+> \r
+> Is there any real reason, apart from consistency between\r
+> --format=default and --format=json, to disable the current multiple\r
+> message reply? Also "notmuch show" has format specific features and\r
+> limitations.\r
+> \r
+> I agree the semantics should be clarified, and eventually multiple\r
+> message reply should be uniformly supported by all formats, including\r
+> --format=json, but IMHO this patch should be dropped (and the TODO patch\r
+> amended accordingly).\r
+\r
+I agree with Jani.  We might as well leave the existing format as it\r
+is and say in the TODO that we should both fix multiple reply and\r
+support it in the JSON format.\r
+\r
+> BR,\r
+> Jani.\r