From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: does "lei q" --format/-f need to exist?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:28:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1le2bdo.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210217044032.GA17934@dcvr>
Eric Wong writes:
> "maildir:/path/to/dir" has been supported by public-inbox-watch
> for years, now.
>
> The following all work today:
>
> lei q -o mboxrd:/tmp/foo.mboxrd ...
> lei q -o mboxcl2:/tmp/foo.mboxcl2 ...
> lei q -o maildir:/tmp/foo/ ...
>
> So -f/--format seems redundant.
I find "<format>:<destination>" pretty natural/intuitive, even if
perhaps the stdout case (e.g., "mboxrd:-" or "concatjson:-") looks a bit
odd. Dropping --format makes sense to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 5:28 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 [this message]
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
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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