From: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Have notmuch count default to showing the total.
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:28:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2x87b3a4191004091228nae33f127le9754973709de659@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpdsu6ds.fsf@SSpaeth.de>
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 23:01, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@sspaeth.de> wrote:
> On 2010-04-08, Mike Kelly wrote:
>> If no parameters are given to notmuch-count, or just '' or '*' are
>> given, return the total number of messages in the database.
> I know that cworth was concerned about this syntax on IRC as that would
> mean that "notmuch show" would have to spew out all your emails in order
> to remain consistent with the search term (he rather wanted to output a
> help text if no search term was given).
What's wrong with having them inconsistent in this one respect? [0]
$ notmuch count
96632
$ notmuch search
Error: notmuch search requires at least one search term.
...seems pretty logical behaviour to me?
Cheers,
aj
[0] Not much, afaics! [1]
[1] Man, what are the chances that will ever get old? [0]
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Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 19:39 [PATCH] Have notmuch count default to showing the total Mike Kelly
2010-04-09 13:01 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-04-09 17:19 ` Dirk Hohndel
2010-04-09 23:33 ` Carl Worth
2010-04-09 19:28 ` Anthony Towns [this message]
2010-04-09 19:39 ` Mark Anderson
2010-04-09 20:07 ` Jameson Rollins
2010-04-09 20:19 ` Mike Kelly
2010-04-10 0:48 ` Carl Worth
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