Re: [PATCH] FIXED: Added better support for multiple structured output formats.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] FIXED: Added better support for multiple structured output formats.

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:40:50 -0700

To: Austin Clements

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Jameson Graef Rollins


On Tue, Jul 10 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Quoth Jameson Graef Rollins on Jul 10 at 10:04 am:
>> 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?
>
> Currently Emacs uses this output format (though
> id:"1341870162-17782-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu" aims to fix
> this).  Also, I assume most scripted uses of notmuch use the text
> format (probably not the --output=summary text format, but certainly
> files, messages, and tags).

Sorry, in a momentary brain freeze I confused the search and show text
output.  You're right that the text search output is more widely used.

jamie.
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