From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mp0 ([2001:41d0:8:6d80::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by ms11 with LMTPS id NiB2Hm/lKmCcYAAA0tVLHw (envelope-from ) for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:19:43 +0000 Received: from aspmx1.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:8:6d80::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by mp0 with LMTPS id qHrIGW/lKmBiMQAA1q6Kng (envelope-from ) for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:19:43 +0000 Received: from mail.notmuchmail.org (nmbug.tethera.net [IPv6:2607:5300:201:3100::1657]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aspmx1.migadu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31ACB1D201 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:19:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from nmbug.tethera.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.notmuchmail.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452E41FE25; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:19:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [IPv6:2607:5300:60:c5::1]) by mail.notmuchmail.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6503A1FAEC for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:19:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by fethera.tethera.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 09C84606DF; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:19:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (nullmailer pid 184612 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:19:35 -0000 From: David Bremner To: David Edmondson , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] show: Add support for -format=raw -body=false In-Reply-To: References: <20210117183710.29850-1-dme@dme.org> <87mtx6gn97.fsf@tethera.net> <87eeiigkwd.fsf@tethera.net> <87blczw8f1.fsf@tethera.net> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:19:35 -0400 Message-ID: <877dn9t4ew.fsf@tethera.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID-Hash: JHQPKCKVFRZ3RLBV74KBR6TNYQKT3DWD X-Message-ID-Hash: JHQPKCKVFRZ3RLBV74KBR6TNYQKT3DWD X-MailFrom: david@tethera.net X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-notmuch.notmuchmail.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -0.32 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org designates 2607:5300:201:3100::1657 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 31ACB1D201 X-Spam-Score: -0.32 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: tePJbu6srv25 David Edmondson writes: > On Thursday, 2021-02-04 at 22:33:06 -04, David Bremner wrote: > >> David Edmondson writes: >> >>>> I'm just nervous about more legacy formats. I think we will get the >>>> arbitrary headers thing working eventually, but I can see it might take >>>> some time. >>> >>> Are we ever likely to get rid of the raw format? I use it quite a bit, >>> and it seems to be relatively low complexity and simple to support. >> >> It isn't completely without maintenance overhead, but I agree it's not >> going away. I can live with the body=false option if you think it's >> better / more feasible than the arbitrary headers series. > > At the moment I'm using the former because the latter is missing, but in > principle I think that they might fill different needs. Could we have > both? On the scale of things, the extra code is not a big deal, so sure. d