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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Emacs 'notmuch-search' "paged" display
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:23:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0bgyhbg.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muamgspy.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net>

Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> writes:

>
> Is it possible in Emacs to emulared the "paged" display as explained in
> the 'less' example?  That is, only read in "a screenful of data", then
> let the pipe fill up, then 'notmuch' block, and only once the user moves
> the point towards the end of the current Emacs buffer, continue to read
> data from the pipe.

One concern with a previous attempt is that it doesn't really work with
ssh wrappers of notmuch [1].

A long time ago Jani Nikula publish a work in progress patch [2] to
provide buttons to extend an initially limited set of results. Making
that production worthy might be an easier task than messing with
internals.

[1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/notmuch@notmuchmail.org/msg47184.html
[2]: https://mid.mail-archive.com/1327692900-22926-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org

      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-18 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-17 12:42 Feature idea: Emacs 'notmuch-search' "paged" display Thomas Schwinge
2020-01-18 14:23 ` David Bremner [this message]

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