Re: searching for one person's replies in a gnus mailbox only, and not the rest.

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> I believe it can be configured to work with nnml.
>>>> You will need a custom nnir backend. IIRC namazu
>>>> and swish(e|++) can both be used here. ...
>>>
>>> Right -- I think the main point, implicit in Will's
>>> answer, is that Gnus doesn't index or search
>>> anything by itself. Nnir is its interface to the
>>> search functionality provided by any given backend.
>>> Backends like nnimap and nntp come with their own
>>> search abilities, but nnml is just files on disk:
>>> you need a program to do the searching, then nnir
>>> will talk to that program.
>>
>> OK, so it should work like this:
>>
>>     nnml -> nnir -> namazu, or swish(el++)
>>
>> I'll be back if/when I get it to work...
>
> On Debian:
>
>     sudo aptitude install namazu namazu2-index-tools
>
> Then get this file:
>
>     https://github.com/deftsp/.emacs.d/blob/master/packages/gnus-namazu.el
>
> Gunzip (and restore the .el suffix), then move the
> file to `load-path'.
>
> In Emacs:
>
>     (require 'gnus-namazu)
>     (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "" (nnir-search-engine namazu))
>                                           (nntp "news.gmane.org")
>                                           (nntp "news.gwene.org")
>                                           (nntp "news.gnus.org")
>                                           ))
>
> Then:
>
>     M-x gnus-namazu-create-index RET
>
> (wait)
>
>     M-x gnus-namazu-search <search string> RET
>
> This searches *all* groups, not just the one at point
> as with `G G' (which still doesn't work for nnml,
> perhaps some setting is still not in effect...)

Have you checked the "will 8.1.3.6 The namazu Engine" section of the
gnus info manual? My guess is you'll still need to set the
`nnir-namazu-remove-prefix' variable. That might be enough, but check
that info page...