* Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> [091125 09:33]: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Alexander Botero-Lowry > <alex.boterolowry at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This way of detecting the tags seems ok, but I think it would be nicer > > if it could be done even more deterministically. :) One idea that be > > neat is to have a --format=sexp for notmuch search, which exports sexps > > (probably alists, but could be some other format) for the search results > > that can just be eval'd and processed in a cleaner way (and would also > > make for nicer APIs in emacs for querying notmuch itself). Actually I > > really like the idea of a sexp output mode for show too, instead of the > > markers.... *plots* > > Along the same lines, I was thinking that it would be nice to be able > to get output formatted in JSON as well for possible use in a web > front-end. Actually, it looks like Emacs has support for JSON as > well[1]. Not sure what release it was introduced in, but I see that > it's in 23.1. > > http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/03/json.el
Would it be possible to make templates for output? notmuch show --format=json would have notmuch follow rules from .notmuch/json.template (or somesuch) -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/