beagle-query configurability

[Jonathan Schultz <jonathan imatix com>]

Hello folks,

I see that there has been some discussion in the past regarding the 
maximum number of hits returned by beagle-query.  I'd like to throw in 
my 2c worth with the following comments:
The hard-coded limit of 100 hits is the single most annoying thing in 
the whole of beagle, which is otherwise a wonderfully useful tool for my 
work.  I regularly get messages like 'Too many matches. Showing latest 6 
of total 711'.  These six hits are often not enough to find what I was 
looking for.  I can use beagle-search, but as it shows no preview of the 
files its results aren't of much use to me either.
First of all, if beagle-search can't return all the matches, then I 
would like to be able to choose whether I get the most relevant, the 
most recent, the oldest, etc.  As a suggestion, it could use the same 
criteria as the 'Sort' option.
Secondly, I would like to be able to get more than 100 matches. Well 
actually 100 would be OK if I could get the 100 most relevant, but (to 
take the case above) 6 is not.
I'm not averse to a bit of code-hacking but I'm no python programmer and 
don't have the time to reverse-engineer the project. If someone could 
point me in the right direction to make these changes I'd be happy to do 
some work on it.
Cheers,
Jonathan