Feature proposal: OUTPUT_AUTHOR format

[Jani Nikula]

On Aug 27, 2013 3:27 AM, "David Bremner" <david at tethera.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>

FWIW, I have some code to this effect that I never posted. I'll see how
much polish it would require.

BR,
Jani.

> 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
>
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