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Subject: Re: [notmuch] Bulk message tagging
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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:58:26 +0100
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:43:19 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> In fact, until we have some sort of daemon that we can feed
> arbitrarily-long lists to, that's what we should do.

Thinking about loud... What if the sub-commands which accept potentially
long argument lists (most of them?) sprouted a '--stdin' option, which
caused them to read the (remaining) argument list from stdin rather than
looking at argv? It seems that this would be simpler change than full
daemon support.

So:
        notmuch show id:foo@bar.baz
could become:
	echo id:foo@bar.baz | notmuch show --stdin

dme.
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