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.

jamie.