Re: Show email adress in output of `notmuch search --format json`

[Edgar Hipp <contact@javascript-ninja.fr>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 10:08:30AM +0100, David Edmondson wrote:
> On Friday, 2017-06-02 at 10:35:03 +0200, Edgar Hipp wrote:
> 
> > What I'm doing is basically 
> >
> > notmuch search --format=json '*' | processing_program | fzf
> >
> > Which makes it possible to search trough messages interactively : fzf is
> > a fuzzy finder(see the gif on the page https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)
> >
> > What I would expect is to have the same format as show but for multiple
> > messages, (in my case for search).
> >
> > That's why I would find it interesting to be able to customize the
> > fields shown in search.
> 
> Understood. There is no general ability to customise the fields today.
> 
> Would:
> 
>   notmuch show --body=false --format=json "*" | other_processing | fzf
> 
> let you achieve your goal? (The processing would have to change, of
> course.)
> 
> In general, I wonder whether “search” or “show” for “*” will give you
> the performance you want if fzf waits for all of the input before
> allowing the user to start matching.
> 
> For example, with 0.5 million messages in a database:
> 
> % time notmuch search --format=json "*" > /dev/null
> notmuch search --format=json "*" > /dev/null  108.14s user 35.55s system 75% cpu 3:10.18 total
> % 
> 
> (Not a particularly fast machine, but all of the relevant stuff is on
> SSD.)
> 
> If I had to wait 108 seconds to start matching it would be
> unusable. “show” will probably be slower.
> 
> dme.
> -- 
> You know your green from your red.

It seems that my notmuch show does'nt show multiple outputs : 

$ notmuch --version
notmuch 0.24.1

$ notmuch show --body=false --format=json "*" | wc -l
1

$ notmuch search --format=json "*" | wc -l
3481

Thanks in advance,

Edgar