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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>,
	Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Two perceived query language imbalances
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:53:47 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmyeraz8.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161952732917.12126.15004755786676144921.git@grubix.eu>

Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu> writes:

>
> In that case, I suggest that `notmuch search --output=messages` outputs
> message ids in the form `mid:...`, as well. Users can discover
> `--output=messages` from command completion and could learn the "right"
> search prefix from the command output.
>

In fact that's the kind of thing where we did not want to change the
function of id:. There is some weird corner cases because /foo/ is
(probably) a valid message-id.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-23 11:29 Two perceived query language imbalances Alexander Adolf
2021-04-23 12:12 ` David Bremner
2021-04-27 11:34   ` Alexander Adolf
2021-04-27 12:42     ` Michael J Gruber
2021-04-28  9:53       ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-04-28  9:54     ` David Bremner

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