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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: does "lei q" --format/-f need to exist?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 08:07:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210220080716.GA30570@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735xr5i1z.fsf@kyleam.com>

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong writes:
> 
> > Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> [...]
> >> Alright, I think keeping it and only recommending it for stdout
> >> (or --stdin with import) is the way to go.
> >> 
> >> "-o format:/path/name" should be encouraged for regular file and
> >> directory args.
> >
> > Actually, maybe "-o $format" be implicitly stdout?
> > (and "-i $format" be implicitly stdin for convert|import)
> 
> Hmm, true.  If we went that route, I guess the format auto-detection in
> LeiOverview::detect_fmt() (currently just for maildir) would be dropped
> because an -o argument without a colon would be taken as the format
> rather than a destination that the format can be detected from?

Maybe not dropped, but probably tweaked for DWIM-ness.

Maybe:

  If somebody wants a Maildir to dump JSON search results in they
  could use "-o ./json" or "-o json/" or "-o /path/to/json".

  "-o json" (no slashes or colons) would mean JSON output to stdout.


But then, "json" could be the name of an existing directory,
so if it exists...

Part of me thinks its too magical...

On the other hand, maybe only requiring the colon: "-o json:"
is enough to disambiguate and isn't too much typing.

We'll just assume nobody would want to end a directory
with ":".  They can still use "-o maildir:/i/like/colons:"
if they really want to end a dirname with ":" for whatever
reason...

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-20  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17  4:40 does "lei q" --format/-f need to exist? Eric Wong
2021-02-18  5:28 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-18 12:07   ` Eric Wong
2021-02-19  3:10     ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-19 11:13       ` Eric Wong
2021-02-19 13:47         ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-19 19:06         ` Eric Wong
2021-02-20  7:12           ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-20  8:07             ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-02-23  3:45               ` [PATCH] doc: lei: favor "-o format:$PATHNAME" over "-f" Kyle Meyer
2021-02-23  6:03                 ` Eric Wong

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