From a4695d467d7e1573c33d5e452d1bbd7f41e26727 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jameson Graef Rollins Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:42:32 +1700 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH 6/8] cli: add support for batch tagging operations to "notmuch tag" --- bf/e9b8621e6f4d59f4f332257b85e5f7d13e4ea8 | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bf/e9b8621e6f4d59f4f332257b85e5f7d13e4ea8 diff --git a/bf/e9b8621e6f4d59f4f332257b85e5f7d13e4ea8 b/bf/e9b8621e6f4d59f4f332257b85e5f7d13e4ea8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87c877d3f --- /dev/null +++ b/bf/e9b8621e6f4d59f4f332257b85e5f7d13e4ea8 @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +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 8CF85431FB6 + for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:42:39 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -2.29 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.29 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, T_MIME_NO_TEXT=0.01] 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 2NDZmre5fcBm for ; + Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:42:39 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu (outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu + [131.215.239.19]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE913431FAE + for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:42:38 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from earth-doxen.imss.caltech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by earth-doxen-postvirus (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8785F66E00BB; + Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:42:38 -0700 (PDT) +X-Spam-Scanned: at Caltech-IMSS on earth-doxen by amavisd-new +Received: from finestructure.net (gwave-213.ligo.caltech.edu + [131.215.114.213]) (Authenticated sender: jrollins) by earth-doxen-submit + (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902F666E0011; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:42:34 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by finestructure.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) + id 6F4E67F4; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:42:34 -0700 (PDT) +From: Jameson Graef Rollins +To: David Bremner , Jani Nikula , + notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] cli: add support for batch tagging operations to + "notmuch tag" +In-Reply-To: <87aa2tc22z.fsf@zancas.localnet> +References: + + <87ty123tpc.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> + <87aa2tc22z.fsf@zancas.localnet> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12+87~g3c4c85f (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:42:32 -0700 +Message-ID: <87iphh50hz.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; + micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" +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: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:42:39 -0000 + +--=-=-= +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable + +On Mon, Apr 02 2012, David Bremner wrote: +> Jameson Graef Rollins writes: +>> On Sat, Mar 31 2012, Jani Nikula 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 +|- [...] [--] +>> +> +> 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