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Subject: Re: Limiting number of results in saved searches in Emacs ?
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Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I can't find a way to limit the number of results in saved searches in
> Emacs. Mainly to avoid OOM issues.
>
> It seems that --limit=N could help on the command-line.
>
> However, the construction of the saved searches only allow to type search terms
> and no options like --limit.
>
> Would anyone have a better suggestion ?

A simple thing to do would be to limit the date range of the saved
search.

d