On Fri, Nov 09 2012, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> This adds a --output=with-ids option which gives similar output to the
> normal search summary output but with a list of message ids
> too. Currently this is not implemented for text format.

Hey, Mark.  Very nit-picky comment here, but I'm not sure "with-ids" is
an appropriate name for an output type.  "with-ids" sounds like a
modifier, as opposed to a output type unto itself.

But I wonder if this separate output type is really necessary.  Can the
emacs interface just make two separate search calls to the binary when
constructing the buffer, one with --output=summary and one with
--output=messages?  Wouldn't that provide all the needed info?  I guess
there would still be a race condition, especially for really long search
results, but I wonder if the calls could actually be made in parallel at
the same time.  Maybe that would require more work.  Sorry, just
thinking out loud here...

jamie.