On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:04:10 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10 2012, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think I would also add something saying that the text format is just > > different (and that a significant chunk of the patch is just that). > > Can we not just dump this output format once and for all? Does anything > use it? And if so can we just modify it to use a more sensible format? I think we need to at least deprecate the format for a release or so, as there are definitely people using it in the wild. As far as I know the at least the Vim interface uses it (what about notmuch-mutt?), in addition to whatever homebrewed scripts might use it. Since scriptability is one of the "notmuch core values", I guess we should also provide something more script friendly than json. As you say, it doesn't have to be exactly like what we have now. d