Re: make menuconfig interface for lei / grok-pull

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>    # populate ~/.cache/lei/uri_folder/.sqlite3
>    lei ls-mail-source nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org

	lei ls-mail-source -l nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org

I just made "-l" show pretty JSON output in the terminal
to help find NNTP article ranges.

>    # if you're using bash:
>    . contrib/completion/lei-completion.bash
> 
>    lei import <TAB><TAB>
> 
> lei import will download the entire newsgroup, which may get
> huge, unfortunately.  It should support ranges (e.g.
> nntp://example.com/inbox.foo.example/900-1000) but the URI
> package doesn't support it, yet...

I was wrong about the URI package not supporting ranges,
it does; and forgot lei even seemed to have (untested)
support for it.  It should be working, now, just pushed out
commit 67fe4d8d90ac77419c8fc41457c849aa7d366a9d
("net_reader: fix single NNTP article fetch, test ranges")
<https://public-inbox.org/meta/20210919125035.6331-11-e@80x24.org/>

Neither Net::NNTP nor Mail::IMAPClient support pipelining
out-of-the-box, though; so network latency is still a problem.

I'm still not sure about doing an interactive UI (my brain
tends to struggle with that stuff :x); but I think extending
tab-completion for epochs and NNTP article ranges would be
good (I'm not particularly good with tab-completion, either :x)