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From: racin@free.fr
To: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: JSON output as default [was: Re: [PATCH] Add an "--output=(json|text|)" command-line option...]
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:27:18 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74981806.5014941267021638774.JavaMail.root@zimbra1-e1.priv.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257161639.5014171267021461605.JavaMail.root@zimbra1-e1.priv.proxad.net>


> > I definitely want to be able to pipe single-field lists coming from
> > notmuch to grep, xargs, shell for loops, etc. without having to
> decode
> > JSON.
> 
> While I would love to see JSON (even by default), I agree. If I just
> want to code up a notmuch-based address book with sth like:
> 
> notmuch show to:Diana --output=to --sort=relevance --limit=20
> 
> just getting back a plain list of mail addresses is the easiest to
> handle.

This would also be useful for the Emacs/Vim interfaces. For instance, my smart completion patch
would really benefit from notmuch being capable of outputing various fields in all messages in plain text
separated by newlines (this is even easier to handle in emacs code than JSON). In fact, most of the C code I had
to write for this patch is better replaced by the --output option...

       reply	other threads:[~2010-02-24 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1257161639.5014171267021461605.JavaMail.root@zimbra1-e1.priv.proxad.net>
2010-02-24 14:27 ` racin [this message]
2010-02-24 14:56   ` JSON output as default [was: Re: [PATCH] Add an "--output=(json|text|)" command-line option...] Jameson Rollins
2009-12-18  5:33 [PATCH] JSON output for notmuch-search and notmuch-show Scott Robinson
2009-12-18 12:59 ` [PATCH] Add an "--output=(json|text|)" command-line option to both " david
2010-02-23 19:56   ` Carl Worth
2010-02-23 21:00     ` JSON output as default [was: Re: [PATCH] Add an "--output=(json|text|)" command-line option...] Jameson Rollins
2010-02-23 23:35       ` Carl Worth
2010-02-24 13:54         ` Sebastian Spaeth

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