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no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-notmuch.notmuchmail.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.3 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: DE X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 5.47 X-Spam-Score: 5.47 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 996416684B X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-TUID: 3wMJIbunGRH1 Am Sa., 25. Mai 2024 um 12:06 Uhr schrieb David Bremner : > > Teemu Likonen writes: > > > > >> Perhaps the manual page needs a few more words to make it clear. > > > > --offset=[-]N > > Skip displaying the first N results. With the leading '-', > > start at the Nth result from the end. > > > > What if we change the first sentence to "Skip displaying the first N > > search results"? > > For me personally that doesn't make it that much clearer, but I'm > willing to follow a concensus if there is one. ... because it was clear to you before, already ;-) Once you are aware of the conceptual difference between "search" and "output", the change makes it clearer. Maybe even "Skip displaying output for the first N search results", in an effort to hint at said difference? Michael