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