Re: [RFC PATCH] show: Add support for -format=raw -body=false

Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] show: Add support for -format=raw -body=false

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:39:13 +0000

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Edmondson


On Monday, 2021-01-18 at 14:28:02 -04, David Bremner wrote:

> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
>> Now, it would be nice to be able to say something like...
>>
>> notmuch show --format=sexp --body=false \
>>   --headers=received-by,face,x-face \
>>   id:foo
>>
>> ...to get some extra headers in the sexp output, but I didn't look at it
>> yet.
>
> There was a series at id:20191122230730.35712-2-johan.parin@gmail.com
> that got stalled due to (I think) some issues with passing around
> configuration information.

I will go and look at this.

>> The proposed change seems like a simple, obvious improvement that is
>> entirely in-line with the existing interface and implementation. Is
>> there any reason not to do it?
>
> I'm just nervous about more legacy formats. I think we will get the
> arbitrary headers thing working eventually, but I can see it might take
> some time.

Are we ever likely to get rid of the raw format? I use it quite a bit,
and it seems to be relatively low complexity and simple to support.

dme.
-- 
They must have taken my marbles away.
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