Re: how do the different frontends deal with displaying large queries?

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: how do the different frontends deal with displaying large\r
+ queries?\r
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+Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:\r
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+> Hi,\r
+>\r
+> I am wondering how the different frontends deal with displaying large\r
+> queries? Do you just display everything at the time? Or do you display a\r
+> limited number and then show more on-demand?\r
+>\r
+\r
+I only know the emacs front end, and I suspect the answer won't help you\r
+much. We start filling an emacs buffer asynchronously with the results,\r
+and display the top of the buffer with the first results.  Results are\r
+appended to the end of the buffer, typically much faster than the user\r
+can scroll.\r
+\r
+d\r