Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add 'cat' subcommand

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add 'cat' subcommand

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:09:31 +0200

To: David Edmondson, Michal Sojka, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Sebastian Spaeth

> I'm puzzled why you chose to pass a filename as the argument to 'cat'
> rather than a message id (id:foo@bar.com)?

I agree, especially as some people want to introduce abstract mailstores
which might not even have the concept of a file name :).

Passing a message-id seems more useful.

Sebastian

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