--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+test_description='"notmuch search" --offset and --limit parameters'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+add_email_corpus
+
+for outp in messages threads; do
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: limit does the right thing"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | head -n 20 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --limit=20 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: concatenation of limited searches"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | head -n 20 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --limit=10 "*" >output
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --limit=10 --offset=10 "*" >>output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: limit larger than result set"
+ N=`notmuch count --output=${outp} "*"`
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --limit=$((1 + ${N})) "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: limit = 0"
+ test_expect_equal "`notmuch search --output=${outp} --limit=0 "*"`" ""
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: offset does the right thing"
+ # note: tail -n +N is 1-based
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | tail -n +21 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=20 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: offset = 0"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=0 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: negative offset"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | tail -n 20 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=-20 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: negative offset"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | tail -n 1 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=-1 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: negative offset combined with limit"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | tail -n 20 | head -n 10 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=-20 --limit=10 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: negative offset combined with equal limit"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | tail -n 20 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=-20 --limit=20 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: negative offset combined with large limit"
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" | tail -n 20 >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=-20 --limit=50 "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+
+ test_begin_subtest "${outp}: negative offset larger then results"
+ N=`notmuch count --output=${outp} "*"`
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} "*" >expected
+ notmuch search --output=${outp} --offset=-$((1 + ${N})) "*" >output
+ test_expect_equal_file expected output
+done
+
+test_done