Re: [notmuch] JSON output as default [was: Re: [PATCH] Add an "--output=(json|text...

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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] JSON output as default [was: Re: [PATCH] Add an\r
+ "--output=(json|text|)" command-line option...]\r
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+> > I definitely want to be able to pipe single-field lists coming from\r
+> > notmuch to grep, xargs, shell for loops, etc. without having to\r
+> decode\r
+> > JSON.\r
+> \r
+> While I would love to see JSON (even by default), I agree. If I just\r
+> want to code up a notmuch-based address book with sth like:\r
+> \r
+> notmuch show to:Diana --output=to --sort=relevance --limit=20\r
+> \r
+> just getting back a plain list of mail addresses is the easiest to\r
+> handle.\r
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+This would also be useful for the Emacs/Vim interfaces. For instance, my smart completion patch\r
+would really benefit from notmuch being capable of outputing various fields in all messages in plain text\r
+separated by newlines (this is even easier to handle in emacs code than JSON). In fact, most of the C code I had\r
+to write for this patch is better replaced by the --output option...\r