Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] Add search-files command

[Ali Polatel <alip@exherbo.org>]

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Jameson Rollins yazmış:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Ali Polatel wrote:
> > This command can be used to integrate notmuch with other MUAs as a
> > searching client. The idea is simple, a simple script could get
> > search-terms as argument and create a "virtual" maildir which has
> > symbolic links to files output by search-files command. This is similar
> > to nmzmail.
> 
> Hi, Ali.  I was also recently asking about a way to output just the
> file names of message resulting from searches.  This is an important
> feature for handling deleting and moving in mail clients as well.  I
> believe that Carl said this would be easier once he applied the JSON
> output patches that are in the queue right now.  Hopefully we'll see
> those soon.
> 
> Personally I think the right way to implement this from a UI
> perspective would be to just have an output filter for the 'search'
> subcommand, something like:
> 
> notmuch search --output=filename <search-term>...
> 
> If output formatting was well enough supported one could even imagine
> getting rid of the 'show' subcommand in favor of just the 'search'
> subcommand with output formatting options.

That's even better! I think I'll be using my patch until these patches
are merged :)

> 
> jamie.

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Regards,
Ali Polatel

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