On Sun, 06 Apr 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes: > >> This series converts the saved-search format to plists. This should >> make it much easier to extend their functionality. The final patch >> illustrates this by adding a sort-order option to the saved >> searches. It also exposes the count-query functionality that is >> already present internally, and could be used to store keyboard >> shortcuts for searches. > > Not necessarily an issue for this series, but I'd like start thinking > about a front-end-independent representation for saved searches; perhaps > json for want of better ideas. Yes that sounds good. I think it would be natural to parse the JSON (or sexp if we allow both formats) into a plist for the saved search so that could fit in quite neatly. Best wishes Mark