Subject: [sup-talk] Feature Req: Command line search/display options

From: [email-masked] (Marcus Williams)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:49:34 +0100

Hi -

I posted this in the tracker on RubyForge but then noticed the mail list
so I thought I'd put it here for discussion. I'd like to add some
command line options to search/display messages, because then I can
script using sup outside of sup as it were.

So c&p from tracker:

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What would be _really_ nice (and I might have a go at a patch if given
some pointers where to start looking) would besome command line options
to search for messages (printing a list of matches and exiting) and to
display a single message (and exit).

What I'm thinking is something like:

sup --search "some search term"

[someid0] [from] [Subject...................]
[someid1] [from] [Subject...................]
[someid2] [from] [Subject...................]
[someid3] [from] [Subject...................]
[someid.] [from] [Subject...................]
[someidn] [from] [Subject...................]

sup --display someid0

From: [email-masked]
Subject: This is my subject

The body.
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Like I said, I can implement this and submit a patch but it might be
faster if someone pointed me to some relevant places in the source (or
told me it can already be done....)

I'd also quite like the output to be machine parsable as an option (in
the case of the search results anyway) and be able to add/remove labels
from messages/threads, but I thought I'd start with plain text :)

Anyone else find this useful?

Marcus

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher Warrington)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:41:40 -0500

> told me it can already be done....)

For the search code, take a look at bin/sup around line 214.

For message viewing, take a look at lib/sup/modes/thread-view-mode.rb

HTH.

-- 
Christopher Warrington <chrisw at rice.edu>
Jones College

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:46:58 -0700

Excerpts from Marcus Williams's message of Mon Oct 15 05:49:34 -0700 2007:
> I'd like to add some command line options to search/display messages,
> because then I can script using sup outside of sup as it were.

In SVN there's a devel/console.sh, which shows how to hook into Sup

> sup --search "some search term"

  $ sh devel/console.sh
  [Fri Oct 26 20:37:55 -0700 2007] loading index...
  [Fri Oct 26 20:37:55 -0700 2007] loaded index of 63434 messages
  >> Index.index.search_each("potato") { |id, score| m = Index.build_message(id); puts "[#{id}] [#{m.from}] [#{m.subj}]" }
  [65155] [William Morgan <wmorgan at masanjin.net>] [potato]
  [20758] [Sam Smoot <ssmoot at gmail.com>] [Declaring instance variables dynamically]
  [6048] [David Balmain <dbalmain.ml at gmail.com>] [[Ferret-talk] hello, acts_as_ferret questions, any help greatly appreciate]
  [6047] [koloa <none at none.com>] [[Ferret-talk] hello, acts_as_ferret questions, any help greatly appreciate]
  [2251] [William Morgan <wmorgan at masanjin.net>] [lunch today]

  >> puts Index.build_message(6047).raw_message
  From ferret-talk-bounces at rubyforge.org Mon Oct 09 08:17:37 2006
  [...]

You can submit a patch that adds --search and --display options to
bin/sup, if you like.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>