From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE76431FD4 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:27:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0llMR+nHECKP for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56F1B431FAF for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VE77g-0002jv-Tg; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:27:04 -0300 Received: (nullmailer pid 30284 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:27:00 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Johannes Kulick , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Feature proposal: OUTPUT_AUTHOR format In-Reply-To: <20130826222226.1093.84929@quirm.robotics.tu-berlin.de> References: <20130825101308.27461.57489@quirm.robotics.tu-berlin.de> <20130826222226.1093.84929@quirm.robotics.tu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.16 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:27:00 -0300 Message-ID: <87li3o9dwr.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:27:14 -0000 Johannes Kulick writes: > An authors output format would not add redundant information to a mail, would be > relatively easy to implement and I would find a people centric view - which > doesn't interfere with any other concept of notmuch - very worth the couple of > new lines of code. > > What would you say? Hi Johannes; I'm not sure I understand your goal completely here, but the obvious thing UI wise would be notmuch search --output=authors --format=(json|text|sexp) $search_terms Perhaps you're already aware of this, but alot doesn't use the CLI, so that wouldn't be directly helpful to having a new view in alot. d