Re: [PATCH] Add an "--output=(json|text|)" command-line option to both notmuch-search and notmuch-show.

[Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com>]

Excerpts from Carl Worth's message of Fri Dec 18 09:33:43 -0800 2009:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:59:55 -0400, david@tethera.net wrote:
> > It took me a little work to apply Scott's patch, so rather than asking
> > him to resend it from git-send-email, I am just sending. I hope no-one
> > is offended (much).
> 
> I think that's great! Collaboration is what this is all about.

Me too!

I've never used git-send-email. I'll give it a whirl on my next patch.

> > I'm thinking that the patch I sent out last night to only dump message
> > ids could be reworked to use the framework of this patch.  I also
> > think it would be reasonably simple to add an --output=mbox option,
> > for archiving and so on.
> 
> I think that selecting *what* to emit is orthogonal from selecting *how*
> to format that output. See some ideas in the TODO file, (where I
> proposed --for and --format options for these). Having a way to do mbox
> output for export would indeed be very nice.

Haha! I originally used "--format" and changed for some reason that escapes me
now.

Implementing an "mbox" formatted output in the current logic wouldn't be
archive perfect. The message body is emitted on a per-part basis.

What I would do is change the semantics of format->body to be called from
show_message. Then the text and json parts would point at the original
implementation passing off their per-part function pointers. And, a new mbox
implementation would just dump the full message body.
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