From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: searching for one person's replies in a gnus mailbox only, and not the rest. Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:33:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87poynuk6c.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d1uq2e0a.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87egf5bulw.fsf@debian.uxu> <877fkw25zz.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87mvts5q6v.fsf@debian.uxu> <87zixror4o.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449188614 20271 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 00:23:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:23:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 01:23:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1a4e9i-0003Ol-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:23:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4e9h-0005UG-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4e9W-0005S6-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4e9T-0007dC-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:23:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4e9T-0007d0-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4e9R-0002rL-My for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:23:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DW9Ln4KXIXm2pc7yCZgcnwqNg9Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108290 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: >> I'm not getting any hits with that. Should one mark >> groups (with # or `gnus-group-mark-group'), then do >> G G and then what do you input as "Query"? > > I typically use this on either a single group or > a whole topic by simply placing point on a group or > on the topic heading. For the query, I type whatever > I want, e.g. "Joe Bloggs" (without the quotes) if > I want to search for emails from/about that person. Indeed, it works simply with point at a group (for example gmane.emacs.help, without marking it), and then just: G G Eric S Fraga RET The reason it didn't work earlier was that I tried it on mail.misc and mail.sent which both use nnml and not nntp as does Gmane! Good to know, only optimally, the same should work transparently for both nnml and nntp, right? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573