From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus: how to improve searching for articles Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <843331d7-e555-4a30-a716-fdf617a22499@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> References: <874ou15ip7.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246260952 30317 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2009 07:35:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:35:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 09:35:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MLBOz-0001iu-3k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:35:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLBOy-0005O2-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:35:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246256133 3049 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2009 06:15:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.10, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170412 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:34:14 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65628 Archived-At: Hello Giorgos, Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > One way is to use '& RET regexp RET #' in the summary buffer. If you > don't type a header in the prompt of '&' it searches the entire > article, > including both headers and body. The '#' command marks the matching > articles with the '#' mark, and then you can: > > 1) Limit the summary buffer to the matching articles by typing `/ > n', or > > 2) Run a command that understand `process-mark', i.e. commands to > copy > the articles to other groups, mass-followup commands, and so on. Actually I just realize that search including the body is really expensive since gnus needs to download all article's bodies in order to perform the search. I don't know nntp protocol but that would be great if it had a search command. BTW I tried to use the google search thing ('G w' in the group buffer) but unfortunately it always failed: Couldn't request group: No matching articles That's sad since it's one of the most attracting feature that google offers when using its interface. Does it work for you ? > > In Emacs 23.X there is also a plugin for searching local group folders > with mairix(1). Yes it's usesfull but only for _local_ search. Thanks -- Francis