Kyle Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Wong writes: > > > "maildir:/path/to/dir" has been supported by public-inbox-watch > > for years, now. > > > > The following all work today: > > > > lei q -o mboxrd:/tmp/foo.mboxrd ... > > lei q -o mboxcl2:/tmp/foo.mboxcl2 ... > > lei q -o maildir:/tmp/foo/ ... > > > > So -f/--format seems redundant. > > I find "<format>:<destination>" pretty natural/intuitive, even if > perhaps the stdout case (e.g., "mboxrd:-" or "concatjson:-") looks a bit > odd. Dropping --format makes sense to me.
How about we just drop --format from the documentation, for now? (or at least stop recommending it when using with -o) The stdout case might be a reason to keep it for "lei q", especially since stdout is the default output: # this defaults to stdout, looks reasonable: lei q -f concatjson SEARCH_TERMS... # this does the same thing, but is more difficult to type and # looks strange: lei q -o concatjson:- SEARCH_TERMS # more readable, but more typing: lei q -o concatjson:/dev/stdout SEARCH_TERMS -- unsubscribe: one-click, see List-Unsubscribe header archive: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
