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25 From: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
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26 To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>,
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27 Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
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28 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add 'cat' subcommand
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56 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:44:03 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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57 > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:14:56 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
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58 > > On 20.4.2010 09:21, David Edmondson wrote:
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59 > > > I'm puzzled why you chose to pass a filename as the argument to 'cat'
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60 > > > rather than a message id (id:foo@bar.com)?
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62 > > The reason is that I want be able to distinguish between several
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63 > > messages with the same id.
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65 > All other commands currently accept the generic search terms to specify
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66 > messages, (even a command like "notmuch reply" for which it would have
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67 > been natural to accept only a single message).
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69 > So I'd prefer to have this command behave just like all others and use
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72 > The question of how to unambiguously refer to a single file is
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73 > orthogonal, (and similarly applies to all commands, such as "notmuch
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74 > tag" etc.). I would recommend supporting a search syntax something like:
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76 > filename:/complete/path/to/file
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78 should we extend this to something generic that allows remote
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81 URI:file/path/to/local/file
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82 URI:ssh/user@host/path/to/file
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83 URI:git/user@host/path/to/file
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87 URI:ftp/user@host/path/to/file
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89 I'm using '/' to separate components, assuming that ':' should be used
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90 only for keywords in the search syntax - if the parser is flexible
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91 enough we could of course use the standard URI syntax instead
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92 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Generic_syntax
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94 foo://username:password@example.com:8042/over/there/index.dtb?type=animal;name=ferret#nose
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96 That would allow to encode the query in a standard way in the remote
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103 Intel Open Source Technology Center
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