Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:

> But you're right that I'm making a pretty arbitrary distinction.  The
> notmuch CLI already includes options to handle output formatting,
> etc. that normal users are probably never going to use in their
> infrequent use of the CLI.  

I don't know if this last is just an off the cuff remark, or it
highlights a difference of opinion. In my view "normal" users of notmuch
use the CLI frequently.  Arguably that means we should take even more
care over the design of the UI, if we can do that doesn't descend too
far into bikeshedding territory.

> I just don't want to see notmuch fall into the same UI black hole that
> e.g. gpg did.

GPG is indeed a cautionary tale. FWIW my biggest gripe with GPG is that
on top of the profusion of options, I almost always have to use
"with-colons" mode to do what I actually want. I don't know what the
lesson there is, other than maximum UI fail.

d