From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:25:22 -0800
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH 3/3] notmuch-show.c: prototype tabular output
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:19:16 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> I think some tabular format would be handy because it is very easy to
> parse with scripts, and because it is a natural natural way to get
> e.g. a list of message-ids.
>=20
> --format=3Dtabular --output=3Dmessage-id

Ah, so maybe your "notmuch show --format=3Dtabular" is basically the same
thing I imagined for "notmuch search" (once we teach it to accept a list
of the desired elements to output).

> On the other hand, I'm not yet using this code, so I guess the main
> point is to discuss how output control should be implemented, and in
> that sense the patch is a demo. I suspect once we start using json
> output more, we will definitely want it there.

Yes. I think we next need to implement some --output options and then
see what we want from there.

=2DCarl

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