From 86e6c6c6931281a8c5c4e82e9c267b93bd83221d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:11:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added maxnum argument to mu find.

---
 man/mu-find.1    | 6 +++++-
 mu/mu-cmd-find.c | 2 ++
 mu/mu-config.c   | 2 ++
 mu/mu-config.h   | 1 +
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/mu-find.1 b/man/mu-find.1
index 152bd4f7..d67d46ad 100644
--- a/man/mu-find.1
+++ b/man/mu-find.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU FIND 1 "June 2013" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU FIND 1 "September 2013" "User Manuals"
 
 .SH NAME
 
@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@ Note, if you specify a sortfield, by default, messages are sorted in reverse
 (descending) order (e.g., from lowest to highest). This is usually a good
 choice, but for dates it may be more useful to sort in the opposite direction.
 
+.TP
+\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-maxnum=<number>\fR
+If > 0, display maximally that number of entries.  If not specified, all matching entries are displayed.
+
 .TP
 \fB\-\-summary-len=<number>\fR
 If > 0, use that number of lines of the message to provide a summary.
diff --git a/mu/mu-cmd-find.c b/mu/mu-cmd-find.c
index 05ec4ad8..d262275e 100644
--- a/mu/mu-cmd-find.c
+++ b/mu/mu-cmd-find.c
@@ -598,6 +598,8 @@ output_query_results (MuMsgIter *iter, MuConfig *opts, GError **err)
 
 		MuMsg *msg;
 
+		if (opts->maxnum > 0 && count == opts->maxnum)
+			break; 
 		msg = get_message (iter, opts->after);
 		if (!msg)
 			break;
diff --git a/mu/mu-config.c b/mu/mu-config.c
index bfd1e104..132b4b6c 100644
--- a/mu/mu-config.c
+++ b/mu/mu-config.c
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ config_options_group_find (void)
 		{"sortfield", 's', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
 		 &MU_CONFIG.sortfield,
 		 "field to sort on", "<field>"},
+		{"maxnum", 'n', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &MU_CONFIG.maxnum,
+		 "number of entries to display in the output", "<number>"},
 		{"threads", 't', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &MU_CONFIG.threads,
 		 "show message threads", NULL},
 		{"bookmark", 'b', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &MU_CONFIG.bookmark,
diff --git a/mu/mu-config.h b/mu/mu-config.h
index dfd278d2..08636246 100644
--- a/mu/mu-config.h
+++ b/mu/mu-config.h
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ struct _MuConfig {
 	/* options for querying 'find' (and view-> 'summary') */
 	gchar		*fields;	/* fields to show in output */
 	gchar	        *sortfield;	/* field to sort by (string) */
+	int		 maxnum;	/* max # of entries to print */
 	gboolean	 reverse;	/* sort in revers order (z->a) */
 	gboolean	 threads;       /* show message threads */