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 15:02:36 -0800 Message-ID: <87mwwwwjg3.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 1356822188 6891 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2012 23:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:03:08 +0000 (UTC) To: 13306@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 30 00:03:24 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 1Tp5R4-0005yg-Rm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:03:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tp5Qq-00045w-5l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:02:41 -0500 X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFrrJIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqDup7H6AwaseLYuXpyaxWkz9eIbN gcnj7/sPTB4XJ+1jDmCK4rZJSiwpC85Mz9O3S+DOOL7mPWvBU/aKV+evMDcwLmHrYuTkkBAw kTj68Cs7hC0mceHeeqA4F4eQwGVGiW0rVzBBOFeZJFY/ncMCUsUmoCkx/dl3sA4RAUmJA4vn s4LYwkDdSybuYwaxhQSkJJYuOgFWwyKgKvHtxXIwm1dAX+LK1k3MELagxMmZT8BmMgtISBx8 8YJ5AiPPLCSpWUhSCxiZVjHKJeaU5urmJmbmFKcm6xYnJ+blpRbpmurlZpbopaaUbmKEBI3g DsYZJ+UOMQpwMCrx8J66fTdAiDWxrLgy9xCjJAeTkihvX+n9ACG+pPyUyozE4oz4otKc1OJD jBIczEoivAEZQDnelMTKqtSifJiUNAeLkjgv3xJ1PyGB9MSS1OzU1ILUIpisDAeHkgSvGDA6 hASLUtNTK9Iyc0oQ0kwcnCDDuaREilPzUlKLEktLMuJBMRNfDIwakBQP0F5FkHbe4oLEXKAo ROspRl2OXytvPmUUYsnLz0uVEud9CXK4AEhRRmke3ApYinjFKA70sTCvI0gVDzC9wE16BbSE CWiJNc8dkCUliQgpqQbG/O0S55TdNtpkm3/d4RyhtPAVl2wqx/eHXGbrPm4/sk47RzUz+8Vq aa7pOjWOrotbEoQy775ZYJff+GRV8/raW2GTrmT6Xvgs5e4Wlp2Q/0FxwbKTb6a8LWL/xHJ0 zxqhv2+aDvXrv7Jw4zAS2mGzmffgkl9tmXxXnLpWt0uF2LNeL9L+K6egxFKckWio 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:69176 Archived-At: 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.