From: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added --initial-index and --last-index to search/show
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:36:36 -0400
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:55:11 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:09:54 -0400, James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org> wrote:
> > This patch implements --initial-index and --last-index as options to
> > search and show.  It lets you select the xth through the yth message
> > and receive results that pertain only to those messages.
> 
> Hi, James.  Thanks for working on this feature.  I don't have time to
> review this at the moment, but I just wanted to mention that the idea
> behind this feature has come up in the past as a way to significantly
> increase usability and performance of the VIM interface.  Since VIM does
> not support asynchronous file loading, this feature could be used to
> efficiently process large search results by only loading one page of
> results at a time.  I highly recommend that the VIM interface developers
> take this and run with it.  I'm sure this could be used to actually get
> the VIM interface over the hump to being fully functional.

As a former vim user, this makes me quite happy.  Thanks!