From: David Bremner Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:02:18 +0000 (+2100) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] batch tagging support: "notmuch tag --stdin" X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1fc30cfc361d7302e7b84e6a88c44a393119c9d1;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] batch tagging support: "notmuch tag --stdin" --- diff --git a/d6/40981f0261b285b1a3f79069758aa5dbfb6a7e b/d6/40981f0261b285b1a3f79069758aa5dbfb6a7e new file mode 100644 index 000000000..59ab86120 --- /dev/null +++ b/d6/40981f0261b285b1a3f79069758aa5dbfb6a7e @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E515431FAF + for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:02:37 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id KSNhzgDY5K5h for ; + Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:02:36 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 672F1431FAE + for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:02:36 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034089108.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net + ([156.34.89.108] helo=zancas.localnet) + by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) + (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) + id 1SJO9v-0008QO-Gs; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:02:27 -0300 +Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.77) + (envelope-from ) + id 1SJO9q-0002sX-52; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:02:18 -0300 +From: David Bremner +To: Jani Nikula , + Jameson Graef Rollins , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] batch tagging support: "notmuch tag --stdin" +In-Reply-To: <87ty0mdnti.fsf@nikula.org> +References: + <87d37ays85.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> + <87ty0mdnti.fsf@nikula.org> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12+104~gf9ad237 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:02:18 -0300 +Message-ID: <87mx6dtd85.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +X-Spam_bar: - +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:02:37 -0000 + +Jani Nikula writes: + + +> I'm totally fine with modifying the proposed format (e.g. change "T" to +> "tag", make things compatible with a future general batch mode), but to +> be absolutely clear: I will not implement a general batch command +> mode. + +I was thinking about the best way of making the interface extensible, +and it might be better have a kind of modal interface, where some well +defined escape at the beginning of the line introduces a mode switch. +This has two apparent advantages: it avoids duplication of redundant +information at the beginning of each line, and for input to a subcommand +it could be optional. + +something like + +* tag ++foo +bar msg.id@blah ++glub -glog other.msg.id@blog + +vs + +* restore +foo bar msg.id@blah +glub glog other.msg.id@blog + +where a hypothetical general batch interface could take those two files +concatenated together, and the "*" lines would be optional feeding to +tag and restore respectively. + +I guess the current proposal is to have the restore format and tag +format a bit closer + +* restore ++foo +bar msg.id@blah ++glub +glog other.msg.id@blog + +This looks like it would be a 2% space increase for my tags. I guess I +could live with that. Another option would be to have the '+' be +optional for tag as well; I suppose then tags starting with + would be +ambiguous, which is probably a bad idea. + +d