On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote: > On Sat, 02 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> I think there should be a way to get the root mail of a thread, >>>> irrespective of the search order. >>> >>> Largely agreed. It's just that nobody's gotten around to doing this >>> yet. At the cli level I think the consensus is that the structured >>> (sexp/json) output format should contain multiple (or all) subjects. >> >> What about the default? (--format=text). What about user-interfaces >> that must display a summary of a thread? > > To be honest, we haven't had much interest in adding new content or > features to the text output formats. It's just much easier to do this in > a backwards compatible way in the structured output formats, for which > we also have the format versioning. The emacs ui uses the sexp format > for the thread summaries.
How is this any better? (:thread "000000000000826a" :timestamp 1383396519 :date_relative "Yest. 06:48" :matched 45 :total 45 :authors "Felipe Contreras" :subject "[PATCH/TEST 44/44] request-pull: rewrite to C" :tags ("sent" "to-me")) -- Felipe Contreras