On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 16:00, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:46:32 -0700, Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca> wrote: >> As the semantics of replying to multiple messages have not yet been >> defined well, make notmuch reply require that the search given returns >> only a single message. > > Is there any real reason, apart from consistency between > --format=default and --format=json, to disable the current multiple > message reply? Also "notmuch show" has format specific features and > limitations. > > I agree the semantics should be clarified, and eventually multiple > message reply should be uniformly supported by all formats, including > --format=json, but IMHO this patch should be dropped (and the TODO patch > amended accordingly). It's just for consistency. I like the idea of dropping support for multi-message replies everywhere now, then re-adding it with new semantics later, but I don't feel very strongly about it. If people who use the CLI would prefer to have the default format left as-is for now that's OK with me.