From: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
To: Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Searching in Gnus: gnus-group-make-nnir-group does not recurse into subtopics
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 08:18:01 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sq9li1y.fsf@bobnewell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1szhiqe02c.fsf@uninett.no> (Vegard Vesterheim's message of "Fri, 27 Sep 2019 06:15:05 +0000")
>>>> "When I initiate a search (gnus-group-make-nnir-group) with the
>>>> cursor on a topic, only the immediate subtopics are searched,
>>>> the topic hierarchy is not traversed recursively"
>>
>> Ah, there's a simple answer as it turns out. Position the
>> cursor to the top of the hierarchy of interest (the topic
>> line). Press # and every visible group in the topic hierarchy
>> gets marked. A subsequent G G searches all the marked
>> groups. Remove the marks with M U.
>
> Although it does not solve my problem completely, this is a useful
> tip. Thanks.
Where does it fall short? By the way, with a little more
experimentation I found that non-visible groups in the
hierarchy also get (non-visibly) marked and searched, so this
may actually be much closer to what you wanted.
> The function `gnus-topic-find-groups' looks promising. I did some
I took a lot at that too and had to write a little function to
parse the output. It returns rather too much information
including many duplicate group records. And translating the
de-duped list into a search is a problem I didn't take on,
once I found out that marking was a better way.
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
* Via Gnus/BBDB/Org/Emacs/Linux *
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 13:33 Searching in Gnus: gnus-group-make-nnir-group does not recurse into subtopics Vegard Vesterheim
2019-09-26 17:59 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-26 19:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-27 0:22 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-27 6:15 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2019-09-27 18:18 ` Bob Newell [this message]
2019-09-28 0:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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