Re: [notmuch] [PATCH 3/3] notmuch-show.c: prototype tabular output format, with outpu...

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