From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 12:53:36 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: [Jameson Graef Rollins] Bug#826280: notmuch: shortcut to list tags
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Re: [Jameson Graef Rollins] Bug#826280: notmuch: shortcut to list tags
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+Subject: Re: [Jameson Graef Rollins] Bug#826280: notmuch: shortcut to list
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
+
+>
+> I occaissionally want to grep through all tags used in my store:
+>
+> notmuch search --output=tags '*' | grep ....
+>
+> It would be nice if there was a shortcut to output all tags to stdout:
+>
+> notmuch tag | grep ...
+>
+> Just utilizing the notmuch tag command when called with no arguments
+> would be the most intiuitive (just like git) and simplest.
+
+I haven't looked at how much work this would be (the notmuch-tag command
+line parsing is slightly more complicated than some of the other
+commands), but a related issue is that it seems sensible for notmuch
+query commands (show/search) to interpret a missing query string as '*',
+in the same way that dump does.
+
+d