Kyle Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Wong writes: > > > Maybe not dropped, but probably tweaked for DWIM-ness. > > > > Maybe: > > > > If somebody wants a Maildir to dump JSON search results in they > > could use "-o ./json" or "-o json/" or "-o /path/to/json". > > > > "-o json" (no slashes or colons) would mean JSON output to stdout. > > > > But then, "json" could be the name of an existing directory, > > so if it exists... > > > > Part of me thinks its too magical... > > That's kind of my feeling, though I suspect that would at least > consistently do what I mean and be unsurprising. > > > On the other hand, maybe only requiring the colon: "-o json:" > > is enough to disambiguate and isn't too much typing. > > Yeah, I don't mind that, but I guess that almost gets us back to "-o > json:-". Then again, I didn't mind that either or really any of the > options proposed in this thread :)
I'll ponder it more while I work on some other features... And bash completion still needs to be better in that area. > Anyway, no matter where this lands, the manpages should switch to > using/recommending the <format>: prefix, so here's a patch for that. Yup, thanks, pushed as commit 56b3493c79087979f10f5a3cae7deedaf4ec9fa3 -- unsubscribe: one-click, see List-Unsubscribe header archive: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
