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From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] cli: add support for batch tagging operations to
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On Mon, Apr 02 2012, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:
>> On Sat, Mar 31 2012, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>>> Add support for batch tagging operations through stdin to "notmuch
>>> tag". This can be enabled with the new --stdin command line option to
>>> "notmuch new". The input must consist of lines of the format:
>>>
>>> T +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-terms>
>>
>
> I think that's my fault. I was imagining a possible future line-oriented=
=20
> notmuch server and having various actions/queries possible. It seems a
> bit blue sky at this point, but it does give extesibility fairly
> cheaply.

But then why not just make the command explicit, and just have the first
field be "tag"?

But then I wonder why do we even need any of this at all?  Isn't it this
just exactly equivalent to:

xargs -l notmuch <commands.txt

??

jamie.

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