[PATCH 1/2] Add 'cat' subcommand

[David Edmondson]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:13:36 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, David Edmondson wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:14:56 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > >  > I'm puzzled why you chose to pass a filename as the argument to 'cat'
> > >  > rather than a message id (id:foo at bar.com)?
> > > 
> > > The reason is that I want be able to distinguish between several
> > > messages with the same id.
> > 
> > It strikes me that notmuch is not well suited to this in general. For
> > example, how would you find the filenames for the two messages with the
> > same message id?
> 
> Currently, it is probably not possible but I can imagine that "notmuch
> show" will output all file names associated with the message id and user
> could select between them if he needs.

If the filenames are really 'unique message identifiers' and may not
work when passed to open(2), then I don't have a problem.

dme.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org