From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Lillibridge Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13306: clarification Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:23:06 -0800 Message-ID: <87bodcvz1x.fsf@foil.strangled.net> References: <87pq1swkco.fsf@foil.strangled.net> Reply-To: mdl@alum.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356848655 25772 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2012 06:24:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13306@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 30 07:24:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TpCJs-0006M6-JF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpCJd-0005M6-K8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:23:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83wqw0jg5p.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:52:02 +0200) X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFvrHIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqHvh7v0Ag/NnBCxenprEavHyylFm i6kfz7A5MHv8ff+ByePipH3MHm3TzAKYo7htkhJLyoIz0/P07RK4M5rntrMUHOetWLbyDmMD 43auLkZODgkBE4nG5mdMELaYxIV769m6GLk4hAQuM0r8+XSSFcK5yiTxYPIfFpAqNgFNienP vrOD2CICChJ3X95mBLGZBSQlmr/NArI5OIQFVCXeTbYDMTkFUiW+tmeCVAgJSEksXXQCrJMF qOJo62GwTl4BfYmVl34wQ9iCEidnPmGBmCghcfDFC+YJjHyzkKRmIUktYGRaxSiXmFOaq5ub mJlTnJqsW5ycmJeXWqRrppebWaKXmlK6iRESckI7GNeflDvEKMDBqMTDG1R/P0CINbGsuDL3 EKMkB5OSKO/p20AhvqT8lMqMxOKM+KLSnNTiQ4wSHMxKIrza1UA53pTEyqrUonyYlDQHi5I4 78/F6n5CAumJJanZqakFqUUwWRkODiUJ3vA7QI2CRanpqRVpmTklCGkmDk6Q4VxSIsWpeSmp RYmlJRnxoPiKLwZGGEiKB2jvYZB23uKCxFygKETrKUZjjh9/bjxl5Pi18uZTRiGWvPy8VClx 3u0gpQIgpRmleXCLYMnmFaM40N/CvNdBqniAiQpu3iugVUxAq6x57oCsKklESEk1MO70+vVh YeuUysk7Tjov2MPCsnYBU1Z371QrGfGIedHvFsz0EfdRVOz7ZvVp7W5Fu2wei0irT3+P968T L7wv9nlK45zZjiv57x/gV7x67t7Jw5IPf0658HjpxEvFX3crm80K7/zi6dG15fjf X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:69183 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: Mark Lillibridge > > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:02:36 -0800 > > > > > > In case it wasn't clear from the last message, occurs does not work > > sanely with Rmail buffers currently even in version 24.2. It takes you > > to the occurrence point but there is no way to narrow the buffer so you > > can do things like forward the found message. > > > > Perhaps a way to narrow a widened Rmail buffer around point would be > > a useful independent function. I'm wondering if such a function called > > from the right occurs mode hook (assuming it exists) would suffice to > > provide the functionality I'm asking for here. > > > > - Mark > > PS, note that both grep and the proposed occurs search the raw mbox file > > not the results of decoding the messages; if someone wanted to go for > > extra awesomeness, they might try and make an special Rmail search > > command that produces an occurs buffer but only searches the decoded > > messages (e.g., ignore nontext parts, work on base 64/printable > > representations correctly). This would be substantially slower, but > > would avoid a lot of false positives. > > Mairix solves all this, since the results of the search are > _messages_, not just lines of text, and these results are presented to > Rmail that decodes and displays them as usual. Try it. I already use Mairix; I want to use occurs on its results in order to see the results in context. Presumably someone else agrees since they implemented this functionality for the result of grep. Also, I don't know a easy way to restrict Mairix's search to one Rmail file. - Mark