Feature proposal: OUTPUT_AUTHOR format

[David Bremner]

Johannes Kulick <johannes at mailless.org> writes:

> An authors output format would not add redundant information to a mail, would be
> relatively easy to implement and I would find a people centric view - which
> doesn't interfere with any other concept of notmuch - very worth the couple of
> new lines of code.
>
> What would you say?

Hi Johannes;

I'm not sure I understand your goal completely here, but the obvious
thing UI wise would be 

  notmuch search --output=authors --format=(json|text|sexp)  $search_terms

Perhaps you're already aware of this, but alot doesn't use the CLI, so
that wouldn't be directly helpful to having a new view in alot.

d