[PATCH 0/5] emacs: hello: convert saved-searches to plists

[Mark Walters]

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This series converts the saved-search format to plists. This should
>> make it much easier to extend their functionality. The final patch
>> illustrates this by adding a sort-order option to the saved
>> searches. It also exposes the count-query functionality that is
>> already present internally, and could be used to store keyboard
>> shortcuts for searches.
>
> Not necessarily an issue for this series, but I'd like start thinking
> about a front-end-independent representation for saved searches; perhaps
> json for want of better ideas.  

Yes that sounds good. I think it would be natural to parse the JSON (or
sexp if we allow both formats) into a plist for the saved search so that
could fit in quite neatly.

Best wishes

Mark