rename show_messages to print_messages and fix up the arg parsing for notmuch show a bit

cnotmuch/message.py

@@ -172,14 +172,19 @@ class Messages(object):
         self._msgs = None
         return i
 
-
-
     def __del__(self):
         """Close and free the notmuch Messages"""
         if self._msgs is not None:
             nmlib.notmuch_messages_destroy (self._msgs)
 
-    def show_messages(self, format, indent=0, entire_thread=True):
+    def print_messages(self, format, indent=0, entire_thread=False):
+        """Outputs messages as needed for 'notmuch show' to sys.stdout
+
+        :param format: A string of either 'text' or 'json'.
+        :param indent: A number indicating the reply depth of these messages.
+        :param entire_thread: A bool, indicating whether we want to output 
+                       whole threads or only the matching messages.
+        """
         if format.lower() == "text":
             set_start = ""
             set_end = ""
@@ -195,6 +200,7 @@ class Messages(object):
 
         sys.stdout.write(set_start)
 
+        # iterate through all toplevel messages in this thread
         for msg in self:
             # if not msg:
             #     break 
@@ -221,8 +227,7 @@ class Messages(object):
             #     break
             if not replies is None:
                 sys.stdout.write(set_sep)
-                replies.show_messages(format, next_indent, entire_thread)
+                replies.print_messages(format, next_indent, entire_thread)
-
 
             sys.stdout.write(set_end)
         sys.stdout.write(set_end)
@@ -720,13 +725,12 @@ class Message(object):
                  % (format['id'], indent, format['match'], format['filename'])
         output += "\n\fheader{"
 
-        #Todo: this date is supposed to be cleaned up, as in the index.
+        #Todo: this date is supposed to be prettified, as in the index.
         output += "\n%s (%s) (" % (format["headers"]["from"],
                                    format["headers"]["date"])
         output += ", ".join(format["tags"])
         output += ")\n"
 
-
         output += "\nSubject: %s" % format["headers"]["subject"]
         output += "\nFrom: %s" % format["headers"]["from"]
         output += "\nTo: %s" % format["headers"]["to"]
@@ -763,7 +767,6 @@ class Message(object):
 
         return output
 
-
     def __del__(self):
         """Close and free the notmuch Message"""
         if self._msg is not None:

notmuch

@@ -302,24 +302,31 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
          print(str(thread))
    #-------------------------------------
    elif sys.argv[1] == 'show':
+      entire_thread = False
       db = Database()
       out_format="text"
-      if len(sys.argv) == 2:
-         #no further search term
       querystr=''
-      elif sys.argv[2].startswith("--format="):
+      first_search_term = None
-         out_format = sys.argv[2].split("=")[1].strip()
 
+      #ugly homegrown option parsing
+      #TODO: use OptionParser
+      for (i, arg) in enumerate(sys.argv[1:]):
+	  if arg == '--entire-thread':
+              entire_thread = True
+	  elif arg.startswith("--format="):
+              out_format = arg.split("=")[1]
+	      if out_format == 'json':
+                  #for compatibility use --entire-thread for json
+                  entire_thread = True
               if not out_format in ("json", "text"):
                   raise Exception("unknown format")
+	  elif not arg.startswith('--'):
+              #save the position of the first sys.argv that is a search term
+              first_search_term = i+1
 
-         if len(sys.argv) == 3:
+      if first_search_term:
-            querystr = ''
-         else:
-            querystr = quote_query_line(sys.argv[3:])
-      else:
           #mangle arguments wrapping terms with spaces in quotes
-         querystr = quote_query_line(sys.argv[2:])
+          querystr = quote_query_line(sys.argv[first_search_term:])
 
       logging.debug("show "+querystr)
       t = Query(db,querystr).search_threads()
@@ -337,7 +344,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
          first_toplevel = False
 
-         msgs.show_messages(out_format, 0, True)
+         msgs.print_messages(out_format, 0, True)
 
       if out_format.lower() == "json":
          sys.stdout.write("]")