On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:00:56 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:17:30 -0500, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > > What do people think about this change? Personally I will have change > > some scripts to not add "tag:", but it isn't that big of a deal. > > I would actually prefer to see the prefixes removed from the messages > and threads output rather than see it added to the tags output. I think > that's the way to make the output most consistent. When I ask for > --output=messages I'm asking for the message ids of the messages, not > for search terms for the messages. I think it should be up to the > consumer to add the prefix if they would like to construct search terms > based on the output. > > My 2 cents. I would be happy to provide a patch to make that change if > people agree to that behavior. > I agree 100%. Your rationale is as rational as they come, and the change itself is really simple (patch available [1]), *but* do consider the amount of tests (alot!) and third-party programs/scripts that would need an update. > jamie. Peace -- Pieter [1] id:"1309421989-22410-1-git-send-email-pieter@praet.org"