[PATCH] Return maximum of 150 results
James Vasile
james at hackervisions.org
Fri Aug 19 08:37:54 PDT 2011
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:00:23 +0200, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, James Vasile wrote:
> > Display a maximum of 150 results when searching for messages. This
> > prevents client lag when searches return thousands of results you'll
> > never look at
>
> I would not like this feature. If I search for something I really want
> to see everything. For example, if I want to remove inbox from many
> messages, I would search for them and press "-inbox<ret>". With your
> patch I'd not be sure whether there are some more messages or not.
Ah, I do such things from the commandline, but you are right that there
is a good use for such.
>
> > (use the Filter command to cut down results that exceed 150).
>
> You can start filtering while the previous search is still running, so I
> do not see problem with having bug number of results.
Yes, you can filter while the search runs, but that's not the only
problem with huge search results. On my system, I routinely do searches
that return 15000+ messages when I'm only interested in the first
several. When I hit Q, Emacs annoyingly asks me for permission to kill
the buffer because it has a running process. And emacs lags as it
processes all that data.
> >
> > Number of results can be changed by setting notmuch-max-results.
>
> If you really want this behavior, I propose to make the default value
> of notmuch-max-results infinity.
Yes, that's probably the right answer. I'll rework the patch to do that.
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