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From: Johannes Kulick <johannes@mailless.org>
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Message-ID: <20130827115004.11629.64740@quirm.robotics.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Feature proposal: OUTPUT_AUTHOR format
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:50:04 +0200
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Hi David,
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Quoting David Bremner (2013-08-27 02:27:00)
> I'm not sure I understand your goal completely here, but the obvious
> thing UI wise would be
>
>   notmuch search --output=3Dauthors --format=3D(json|text|sexp)  $search_=
terms
>
> Perhaps you're already aware of this, but alot doesn't use the CLI, so
> that wouldn't be directly helpful to having a new view in alot.

Do you mean, that this output=3Dauthors option is already available? Then I=
'm not
aware. If it is not available it's exactly what I meant. So it would look
something like:

$ notmuch search --output=3Dauthors from:Johannes
Johannes Kulick (1234 msgs)
Johannes Doe (123 msgs)
Johannes Mueller (12 msgs)
...

I'd sketch the way to implement it like this:

- add notmuch_authors_t and notmuch_author_t structs
- add a notmuch_database_get_all_authors (notmuch_database_t *db)
- add the functions around that to actually get an option for the ui
- add bindings for the other languages

(- implement the view in the clients)

Cheers,
Johannes

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