* 2024-05-20 21:24:01+0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > It doesn't seem clear how offset is counted on command like > > notmuch search --output=files --offset=10 ... > > Does it skip 10 output files (which may belong to less than 10 messages) > or does it skip 10 messages (so it possibly skips more than 10 files)? > Manual page speaks of "results" but I think it can be interpreted either > as "displayed output results" or "search match results (messages)".
I tested and the answer is: --offset option skips that many search match
messages. So it looks to me that command
notmuch search --output=files --offset=10 ...
internally lists all matched messages, skips to the offset, and then
starts printing the file names of the rest of the message list.
> 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"?
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